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This research paper uses the Neo-Classicist painter Jacques-Louis David's "Oath of Horatii" and Romanticist Eugene Delacroix's "Li...

First, Socrates, who is obviously the focus of the painting, is sitting up, still teaching as shown by his raised left hand. Hes m...

In six pages this paper discusses how the American Constitution was influenced by Discourse on the Origin of Inequality by Jean Ja...

politics and by both sides of that political spectrum, conservative and liberal, making it clear that, at first, he was perceived ...

support of it. If Rousseau is a Romantic and Newman a Victorian, it seems that the difference lies in the fact that Rousseau wants...

culpable. It is true that many other nations, such as France, opposed the war effort in Iraq. Did the U.S. overstep its bounds? Wh...

fix the problems of the world unless they have no problems of their own. One problem that is quite prevalent in the...

tangled when one relies on the system to teach. In fact, when examining contemporary life, one can see that a large compliant abou...

no laws against theft, a pauper might think that he had the right to take riches from other people simply to level the playing fie...

Haiti and the Caribbean Islands may appear to be non-French by skin tone and speech, they are still cultures that are likely more ...

amour-propre. The first category, amour de soi, is self-love that does not derive from others. Rousseau asserts that it is part of...

as fairness" (Rawls, 2006, p. 199). He is quick to point out, however, that "justice" and "fairness" are not to be seen as equival...

himself how to act in every given circumstance; in addition, each person would be "judge, jury and executioner" of any disputes th...

however, as it relates to the development of an individual. It is a very fictional piece of work where people such as Emile really...

structures, art, sculpture, glass works, decorative pieces and illuminated composition from the twelfth through the sixteenth cent...

make it legitimate? That question I think I can answer" (Rousseau, 1762). The philosophers answer is in fact the social contract....

In five pages this paper examines how the state of nature is addressed in the Social Contract of Jean Jacques Rousseau. One sourc...

dispose of their possessions and persons, as they think fit, within the bounds of the law of nature, without asking leave, or depe...

places that many had never contemplated even existed. Whether because of religious beliefs, create trade routs, gold or the raw d...

citizens." The term "direct representation" is somewhat of an oxymoron as many have come to look at democracy as either a direct d...

and remain as free as ever (Rousseau, 1762). Again, it is impossible for the government to impose restrictions and expect the obed...

be animals, much like any others, motivated primarily by their urge toward self-preservation. Rousseau posits that the only true f...

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

the pains he has felt, and that there are others whom he ought to conceive of as able to feel them too" (222). There is a distinc...

infinite substance: God, "the universal essence or nature of everything that exists" (Wozniak, 1995). Spinoza (1997) persevered a...

increased productivity. American manufacturing capacity was increasing constantly, but wage increases did not reflect this: worker...

this path in the pursuit of happiness if there was no catch. The problem is, as Freud (1989) saw it was that love relationships al...

of each association, and in which each, while uniting himself with all, may still obey himself alone, and remain as free as before...

body, the weakest has strength enough to kill the strongest, either by secret machination, or by confederacy with others, that are...

light that does not deceive us" (Whelan, 2002, p. 1). This "natural light," in his estimation enables human beings to arrive at "...