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Theories of Parity

D=US$/UK? * Abiding by this law of one price butter in the united kingdom should be *D = butter price in the United States. * Ther...

Overview of the Dahomey Kingdom

trade, they were unable to win and became a tributary to Oyo. However, they effectively retained their independence and the king a...

Why Is Power Productive For Foucault?

who went before, without any question as to why things are accomplished in any certain order, the time for the Enlightenment symbo...

Hobbes and Mao's Absolute Sovereignty

of education during Maos command proved extremely difficult to achieve, inasmuch as the entire education system crumbled and the w...

Law, Power, and Politics According to Saint Thomas Aquinas

belief at the time (The Radical Academy, 2004). God gives this power to the people as a whole, not to individuals (The Radical Aca...

Political and Social Philosophies of James Madison, Thomas Jefferson, John Locke, and Thomas Hobbes

This is particularly true for Jefferson verses Madison and Hobbes verses Locke. Despite their differences in philosophies, ...

Political Parties and Government Powers According to George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, and James Madison

In five pages this paper discusses a fictional debate between three of the U.S. Founding Fathers regarding government powers and a...

Thomas More and Thomas Hobbes on Religion and the State

In five pages this paper contrasts and compares Hobbes' Leviathan and More's Utopia in terms of how the state and religion are dep...

'Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night' by Dylan Thomas

derives from the fact that it seems as if it had a familiar or conventional meaning. One might be tempted to try a nonliteral int...

Should One Support the Other in a Society of Absolute Affluence and Absolute Poverty?

In five pages the writer argues that people of absolute affluence should support those members of society languishing in absolute ...

Natural Government Perspectives of Jean Domat and John Locke

In five pages this paper compares the perspectives that are presented in On Social Order and Absolute Power by Jean Domat and Seco...

Existence, Delusion, Doubt, and Destiny

yet highly controversial Theory of Evolution in 1859, a theory impressive in its presentation and scientific reasoning but unmista...

Linguistics Analysis of War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy

Pavlovna is having a party where Prince Vasily, Prince Andrei, Pierre and others are gathered to enjoy the evenings festivities. H...

France's King Louis the Fourteenth and His Absolutism

was an absolute ruler, he kept his nobles living at court and as such their power base was impotent as they lacked independence an...

Power Like Faustus

an especially admirable trait in any person. What spoils it is the quest for power if the power is going to be used for evil inste...

Joseph Nye/Paradox of American Power

which hold the possibility of balancing "diplomatic and informational power."vii Nye believes that the U.S. should take a stand be...

The Western Tradition of Psychology

Psychiatry is a relatively new discipline yet its roots can be traced back to philosophers such...

Good and Evil Morality Concepts

to allow him to survive. Pojman draws a distinction between ethics (or morality), on the one hand, and etiquette, law, and religio...

Human Nature as Viewed by Thomas Hobbes

linger about fairness and equality, that one has to assume that to some extent, mans nature is related to this concept. First, Ho...

Liberal Democratic and Radical Political Schools of Thought Compared

of his better known works "The Social Contract", he discusses issues involved in radical or republican thought regarding the human...

Necessity of Government

country in terms of routine items such as traffic and violent crime and international relations. It would create a strong national...

Moral Reasoning Case Study Evaluation

fact, it seems that both are taking the noble road and one wonders why anyone would succumb to the pressure of signing a paper tha...

Comparative Analysis of John Locke's and Thomas Hobbes' Theories

the same species and rank, promiscuously born to all the same advantages of nature, and the use of the same faculties, should also...

The Film Finding Forrester, Thomas Hobbes, and Aristotle

In five pages this paper consides how films reflect some type of philosophy and the example of the 2000 film staring Sean Connery ...

Comparative Analysis of Plato's, Hobbes' and Locke's Theories

would Hobbes be accepted in todays world? Would he fit in at all? These and other questions loom large. Still, each in their own w...

Transatlantic Relations and the Impact of the Euro

With the new currency, there is fear that the EU will focus on trade over security issues. In the past, Europe has had a lot of pr...

Society and Freedom According to Jean Jacques Rousseau and Karl Marx

There would be less alienation, according to Marx. For Marx, Communism would be equated with freedom, despite the fact that for mo...

4 Questions on Philosophy, Hobbes and Peirce

power to enforce decisions (Lloyd, 2002). Hobbes also believed that an absolute monarchy was prefereable to other forms of govern...

Concepts of Thomas Hobbes and John Locke

is the part of a wise man to believe them no further than right reason makes that which they say appear credible." In other words...

Thomas Hobbes' 'Fool Argument'

he is good and honest, the covenant will be kept. If not, then it is more likely than not that it will be broken. Hobbes (1651) ...