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Essays 181 - 210

Contemporary Relevance of the 'Social Contract' of Jean Jacques Rousseau

nonetheless that speaks of how we feel, as Americans, we are free and independent, yet powerfully under the control of our own "so...

Case Study Analysis of Freedom of Speech

shoppers. What is proposed is a nuisance law, with a nuisance being defined as something that contributes nothing to the social go...

Antiterrorism and Human Rights

against terrorism per se may still be in favour of what he terms extreme action. For example, the bombing of civilians by the Alli...

Panhandling, Free Speech, and John Stuart Mill

In five pages this essay discusses Mill's essay 'On Liberty' in a consideration of panhandling prohibition ordinances and freedom ...

Childhood and Its Secret According to Dr. Maria Montessori

olds from low income families. The schools began opening up in the United States in 1910. In the 1920s however, because of their c...

Society and Freedom According to John Stuart Mill

Still, most Americans see themselves as free and voice their opinions loudly. What does this mean exactly? Is it the same freedom ...

Tutorial on Maintenance of Civil Liberties

airplanes could dive bomb into more buildings? The purpose of this paper is to lead the student through some arguments reg...

Liberty and Autonomy According to Immanuel Kant

past times are given (or as he put it more cautiously, "presupposed") in the present time. It is possible, according to Kant, tha...

Finding Ways to Fight Terrorism

the acts and (2) why they commit the acts. It was one of our own citizens who planned and executed the Oklahoma City...

J.S. Mill's 'On Liberty' and Abortion

issue. The extreme range of emotions that are involved in the debate concerning abortion can be difficult for the woman in a situ...

Liberty According to John Stuart Mill and Benjamin Constant

keep order and lock up criminals and investigate injustices, but it is not governments job to tell the people how to live their li...

Democracy and Latin America

arise in its place. Indeed, the respective governments were not about to allow such a perceived takeover without as much as an al...

Anti Terrorist Legislation of the United Kingdom

strongly by Cohen (2001). He notes that...

Cultural Impact of Television

reasons why Mill make this assertion at the close of his argument lie within the work itself. In chapter III, Mill puts worth two ...

Individuality and Liberty According to John Stuart Mill and Henry David Thoreau

respond to and voice his opinions regarding the political events and developments of his time in England, but with a vision for th...

Death Penalty Arguments Both For and Against

on executions so that the society can take time to figure out why the system is broken (2002). Then, possibly, it is alluded that ...

Jean Jacques Rousseau's Flawed Freedom

line of work, or even work at all. The government does demand allegiance and can draft members of the society if a war thus demand...

Edmund Burke, Joseph de Maistre, and John Stuart Mill

facilitate a persons physical or moral good. In other words, laws should be formulated only in so far as one persons actions inter...

Euthanasia or PAS

himself, without mischief reaching at least to his near connexions, and often far beyond them"(Mills,9). John Stuart Mill seemed ...

Analysis of On Liberty by J.S. Mill

that they progress and improve. Mill writes, "The human faculties of perception, judgment, discriminative feeling, mental activit...

Tutorial on J.S. Mill's On Liberty and Utilitarianism

particular truths involved (Mill, 1987). But, in art, individuals must operate from the opposite direction - first there is a gen...

On Liberty by J.S. Mill

by the first amendment is that one cannot yell "fire" in a crowded theater. Why? While people have freedom to say what they like, ...

Equality and Liberty According to Such Social Theorists as Emile Durkheim and Karl Marx

Paine disagreed and argued that all governments are bad and that only society is good but even he conceded that "governments are n...

Durkheim and Marx on Equality and Liberty

predominating fact peculiar to these ages is equality of conditions, and the chief passion which stirs men at such times"(2002). ...

Chapters and Arguments in On Liberty by J.S. Mill

being antithetical to their interests, but rather looked upon government as an instrument for promoting and protecting the interes...

Book Review of Dorothy Roberts' Killing the Black Body Race, Reproduction, and the Meaning of Liberty

with knowledge. Dorothy Roberts "Killing the Black Body: Race, Reproduction, and the Meaning of Liberty" is a reflection of that ...

Evaluating On Liberty by John Stuart Mill

which can possibly be doubtful, but think that some particular principle or doctrine should be forbidden to be questioned because ...

Rewrting Western Civilization and Artistic Liberty of 'Captain Corelli's Mandolin' and 'Das Liebeskonzil'

construct of war from one in which emotions such as love have the power to overwhelm the realities of death and dying which surrou...

Sacrificing Liberty for Security, 9/11 Restrictions

This argumentative essay states a position against the restrictions imposed under the Patriot Act due to 9/11. At the end of the e...

Liberty or Death According to Patrick Henry

2004). When fighting broke out, Patrick Henry rose to the position of commander in chief of the states troops, "but he was preven...