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Executive Power and Liberty According to Second Treatise of Government by John Locke

does not have to reside in the United States. They do so by choice and so, what is a concern is that the people obey the law while...

Justifying the Iraq War Philosophically

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...

A Civic Project

in membership in many different kinds of social and civil organizations over the last two generations (Putnam, 1995). The decline ...

Inspiring Governments: John Locke

states, in his Second Treatise of Government, Chapter XI, the following: "THE great end of mens entering into society, being the e...

Saint Thomas Aquinas (1224-1274)

tutelage of Peter of Ireland to study logic and natural sciences (Kennedy, 2006; McKerny, 2002). It was there that he first met me...

Thomas Hobbes And Sigmund Freud: Man Is Born Into Specific Behaviors

Hobbes clearly addresses the notion of individualism and Social Contract Theory as they relate to the moral factor behind justice....

President John F. Kennedy’s Leadership

as being led into making decisions by events and circumstances rather than meeting them head-on. An example of this might be the ...

John Locke Sources Plus an Annotated Bibliography

and not just as a theorist. Krueckeberg, Donald A. "The difficult character of property to whom do things belong?". Journal of t...

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 ...

Jean Jacques Rousseau and John Locke on Inequality

no other legislative power but that established by his own consent in the commonwealth. This means being not under the control of ...

American Health Care Industry as Viewed by Thomas Hobbes and Plato

In ten pages this paper examines how Hobbes and Plato would view the problems currently faced by the U.S. health care industry. F...

Community and Inequality According to Jean Jacques Rousseau and John Locke

a moral fashion, it ceases to function in the proper manner and ceases to exert genuine authority over the individual. According ...

The Lazy Poor

write off or simply looking good in front of others. Rather, the helper feels better about themselves. Helping feeds the ego. Howe...

Material Things' Existence and Proof from John Locke and Rene Descartes

In ten pages An Essay Concerning Human Understanding by John Locke and Meditations on First Philosophy by Rene Descartes are asses...

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...

Arendt's The Human Condition

In sixteen pages this paper examines the concepts of capitalism, fascism, and liberalism as represented in the theories of Adam Sm...

Welsh Poet Dylan Thomas

could find. He entered his teen years in a state of rebellion, and left school when he was sixteen years old. He found work as a...

Ideology and 'Englishness'

values within, England holds itself it is in less than positive light. Indeed, it can readily be argued that this is his right an...

Innate Knowledge and the Debate Between Nativism and Empiricism

In nine pages the debate between innate or native knowledge as espoused by Kant, Descartes, and Plato is compared with the empiric...

Education and the 'Blank Slate' Concept of John Locke

In five pages this report discusses the 'blank slate' of the human mind according to John Locke and also considers education's rol...

Right and Wrong According to Philosophers W. David Ross and Thomas Hobbes

In five pages this essay considers right and wrong from Hobbes' 17th century perspectives and Ross's 20th century vantage point. ...

X Files, Personhood and a Disembodied Mind

In six pages this paper examines an X Files episode form 1998 in a consideration of whether or not personhood can be experienced b...

Economy, Market, and State According to Karl Marx and Thomas Hobbes

In eight pages this paper contrasts and compares Marxist and Hobbesian theories regarding a market economy, the State, and society...

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...

John Locke and Karl Marx on Private Property

It is labor, and thus the laborer "that puts the difference of value on everything." Locke answers the question of whether or not ...

War According to Thomas Hobbes' Of the First and Second Natural Laws, and of Contracts

In five pages this text by Hobbes is applied to the thesis that war is inevitable. There are no other sources listed....

'Pursuit of Happiness' According to John Locke and Jean Jacques Rousseau

the law of property and of inequality" (04.htm). While Locke essentially agreed with Rousseau that in a natural state, humanity l...

Medieval Perspectives on Religion by Keith Thomas and Eamon Duffy Compared

the other hand, is quite different. Duffy sees the magical element as part of an overall religious system that was flexible, vibra...

'Corrupted' Man Political Theories

In three pages this paper discusses how the 'corrupted' man theories were viewed by John Locke, Jean Jacques Rousseau, Karl Marx a...

Arguing for a First Amendment Enactment Supported by Second Treatise of Government by John Locke

that Locke discusses the role of the individual, and the rights of that individual when he/she enters the State. He gives an acco...