Explain and compare Hobbes’ and Kant’s accounts of the foundations of morality.

Whether you pick topic one or topic two, your essay should demonstrate an understanding of the moral theories presented by Hobbes and Kant. In addition, your essay must demonstrate progress in your own thinking about the questions raised by the essay topic you have chosen. In other words, in addition to explaining the issues and arguments, and to evaluating the merits of those arguments, you are required to compare the strengths/weakness of the accounts presented by Hobbes and Kant and to position your own view in relation to these. Who do you think is correct? You must provide reasons and arguments for the stance you take. After you have chosen the topic for your paper, the assignment requires that you(a)clearly formulate and explain the positions;(b)give the main argument or arguments in their defence;(c)state as clearly and forcefully as you can the main objections against each accountand(d)draw your own conclusion as to their relative merits. You are not expected to provide a definitive or unassailable defence of the account you favour but you are required to make some contribution of your own to the debate you depict between Hobbes and Kant. Your essay should testify to the fact that you have made a determined effort to grapple with the moral problems from a theoretical viewpoint.You should design your essay for an audience of people who are of roughly your own degree of education and intellectual development, but who have not done the readings or attended the course. In other words, write for a cold audience. You should also strive for a clear and simple writing style. Make sure that you explain the crucial terminology. Try to organize your essay so that each part of it builds up a defence of your conclusion in a way that your audience will be able to follow and understand and in a manner that your audience will find persuasive.TOPIC ONE: HUMAN NATURE & REASON Kant and Hobbes give conflicting accounts of the role played by reason versus the role played by desire/inclination in the determination of what is “good”, “evil”, “right” or “wrong”. Kant tries to formulate a purely rational principle which provides the latent underpinning for ordinary views about what has unconditional moral value. According to Hobbes, ordinary experience establishes that human beings are essentially self-interested and driven by desire/aversion. Therefore, morality must ultimately be grounded by subjective self-interests. Explain and compare Hobbes’ and Kant’s accounts of the foundations of morality. Identify and explain the key points and sources of difference. To what extent do these accounts differ as a consequence of different accounts of human nature? To what extent do they differ as a consequence of different conceptions of reasoning and rationality? To what extent do they differ as a consequence of different conceptions of morality? Which account best gels with our ordinary experiences and moral convictions? Why do you think so? Be sure to support your view with arguments.Readings:Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan. Ed. John Gaskin. Oxford University Press, 1998. (Selections)​ISBN: 0–19-2834883 Immanuel Kant, Grounding for the Metaphysics of Morals. Trans. James W. Ellingson. Hackett, 1993.