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John Locke and Capital Punishment

be little doubt that the crime rate is higher now, simply by virtue of the fact that the population is larger. Locke would probabl...

Aristotle and St. Thomas Aquinas on Religion and Philosophy

truth that transcends the traditional means of understanding or knowing. For Aquinas, reason does have limitations. He writes: "N...

The Appeal Of Howard Stern

and political components have had upon the masses is more than superficial according to Stern; rather, this power has rendered soc...

Political Power and How It Originated

a social contract. In other words, how is it that man is born free but must obey the law? Locke was by no means a theorist who tho...

The Centralist Political Philosophy of Barack Obama: "Useful Fictions"

This 4 page paper provides an overview of Barack Obama's political philosophy and its orientation in centralism. The primary thesi...

Marx, Engels, and Locke on Social Justice

was in opposition to the patriarchal theory that conferred divine-right grace on any sitting monarch. Locke emphasized human stre...

Political Authority versus Individual Freedom According to John Locke

In five pages this paper examines these conflicting concepts as represented in Second Treatise of Government by John Locke. There...

God, Nature, and Human Knowledge and the Philosophies of John Locke and Rene Descartes

what Descartes believed to be the existence of humanity and humanitys understanding of what knowledge truly is. In a comparison of...

Politics, Private Property, and the Philosophy of John Locke

and the natural rights that inherently accompany such ownership. Within the realm of life exists inherent elements to ones existe...

Anti Innate Principle Argument of John Locke

that standard then the entire concept of innate knowledge cannot possibly be true. He further argues that those who say...

Thomas Aquinas and Bernard Lonergan on Individual Philosophy

In six pages this paper presents the arguments of Karl Rahner regarding philosophies on the individual according to Aquinas and Lo...

Jean Jacques Rousseau and John Locke on Inequality Permissibility

In five pages this report examines the permissibility of social inequality according to philosophers Jean Jacques Rousseau and Joh...

Philosophies and Democracy

In five pages the statement 'Democracy is not a mechanical device, it is, rather, a living organism that can only flourish in cert...

Justice and Social Good According to John Locke and Jean Jacques Rousseau

In five pages this paper examines justice and social good in a contrast and comparison of the perspectives of John Locke and Jean ...

Property as Defined by John Locke

In two pages this paper discusses Locke's Essay on Civil Government in terms of how the English political philosopher defined prop...

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...

Man's Interests, Politics, and the Perspectives of Niccolo Machiavelli and John Locke

In eight pages this paper contrasts and compares The Prince by Niccolo Machiavelli and the Social Contract of John Locke in a cons...

Analysis of the Pluralism Philosophy

In twelve pages this research paper examines the evolution of pluralism in a consideration of such philosophies as David Hume's em...

Thomas Shadwell and John Dryden's Attacks Represented by the Character 'Mac Flecnoe'

In five pages this paper reveals how Dryden's character development of Mac Flecnoe is a scathing attack upon one of his contempora...

The Bridges of Madison County by Robert James Waller

In ten pages this paper analyzes the relationship between Robert Kincaid and Francesca Johnson that is featured in The Bridges of ...

Victorian Society, Thomas Carlyle, and John Stuart Mill

In seven pages this paper examines how Mill and Carlyle influenced the Victorian Era as well as the society of the time influenced...

Chapter 3 of From the Presocratics to the Present A Personal Odyssey by Daniel Kolak

In seven pages this chapter is discussed in terms of how the author portrayed the philosophical influences of such theorists as Hu...

Communism, Federalism, and Freedom

In seven pages this paper examines the different perspectives of freedom expressed by Friedrich Engels and Karl Marx in The Commun...

Philosophy Defined

In ten pages this paper examines what philosophy represents as considered in Philosophy The Quest For Truth by Louis R. Pojman a...

A Review of The Life of James Madison

encyclopedias are not used. But, considering the lack of information on Hunt, we present a brief citation from the Columbia Encycl...

Poets R.S. Thomas and John Betjeman on Nature and the Modern World

and soul) are in a fight for their own survival and right to exist, and that the simple things in life, those things that really c...

Philosophy and Ten Questions

This paper consists of 12 pages and concerns asking famous philosophers such as George Berkeley, Rene Descartes, John Wisdom, Davi...

Economics and its Scientific Development

In six pages this paper examines how economics developed as a science with the contributions of John Locke, John Maynard Keynes, M...

Philosophical Comparison of Adam Smith, John Maynard Keynes, and Thomas Malthus

towards a decrease; while the price of provisions would at the same time tend to rise" (Malthus PG). People of that time disagree...

Christianity and Religion According to On Liberty and A Letter Concerning Toleration

of itself, is not the end of the line in relation to the state of religious toleration, inasmuch as its very definition is that of...