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that country is assuredly America" (de Tocqueville). de Tocqueville discusses universal suffrage, which he says "had been adopted...
to produce was shaped primarily after the ideologies of John Locke but that system also diverged from Lockean ideology to one exte...
as well. These will be 1. competition 2. political party representation 3. accountability Each index will be evaluated on a sc...
citizens." The term "direct representation" is somewhat of an oxymoron as many have come to look at democracy as either a direct d...
stable world, one with less aggression between countries and the more democracies there are in the world, the more peaceful the wo...
fault was seen to be a personal failing, rather than a condemnation of the US system of government. When terrorists attacke...
electoral college. The merit of the system can be questioned in todays environment of instant communications, but it was quite ef...
same name to refer to the worldview of Native American and other indigenous peoples throughout the world who have "understood and ...
Professor Chisholm's argument and counterargument are presented in a paper of 6 pages that ultimately supports the philosopher's c...
that people do have a duty to God, which is coupled with a duty to obey their ruler (Honderich, 1995). At the same time, Locke say...
the only species that truly does not understand the depth and intensity that animals possess in their special consciousness. When...
being within society: "the proper excellence or virtue of man will be the habit or trained faculty that makes a man good and makes...
deep down, but on the surface they are essentially chained and shackled. They are in the dark about a lot of things because they c...
that can render a thought or a concept wrong. One can do a study one day to prove that cholesterol is bad, and then another day, a...
circumstances or the surrounding empirical conditions (158). Kant goes on to elaborate on this point but concludes with an interes...
only from a scientific standpoint but from a philosophical and political standpoint as well. British philosopher John Lock...
or that their lives are even close to resembling those of the first disciples?" (as qtd. in Galli, 2002, p.62). He poses a good qu...
to hold property" (Child, 1990, p. 578). For him, it was an inherent and instinctive part of human nature. In Chapter 5, "Of Pro...
In a paper that consists of eight pages Plato's interpretation of the soul and its parts are explored along with a discussion of t...
are relativist ones" (Putnam as cited in Geras, 1995, p. 108). At face value, it does appear that Rortys ideas are not objective....
In five pages this paper discusses Philebus by Plato in terms of how it represents the philosopher's views on pleasure. Nine sour...
de La Mettrie - Mental Activity In "Man a Machine" (1748), de La Mettrie says: "Let us start out then to discover not...
In five pages this paper examines the French philosopher's text as it explains his approaches to recognizing knowledge that is 'tr...
The ways in which Chinese philosophers' views of human nature influenced how the perceived the interrelationship of rituals and la...
In four pages Book I of Aristotle's Politics is used as the philosopher's 'natural' realism defense especially pertaining to the n...
In five pages this paper considers these two philosophers' views regarding empiricism and the origin of reason in a comparative ex...
In eight pages Hume's Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding serves as a springboard to a discussion regarding the Scottish philos...
In ten pages these two Harvard philosophers' views on justice are compared in a consideration of human socialization and an assess...
In about fifteen pages Nietzsche's philosophies are analyzed in this collection of essays that discuss such concepts as nihilism, ...
In nine pages the perspectives of self realization as reflected in German philosopher Karl Marx's The Communist Manifesto and Brit...