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Essays 241 - 270
In seven pages this chapter is discussed in terms of how the author portrayed the philosophical influences of such theorists as Hu...
This paper examines Hobbes' work, Leviathan, as well as Machiavelli's, The Prince as they relate to the beginnings of political th...
This paper addresses various literary works relating to human behavior and society. The author discusses George Orwell's work Sho...
In nine pages this paper examines several theoretical perspectives regarding power and knowledge including 'Discipline and Punish'...
In seven pages this paper discusses private property in a discussion of social contract theory, the views of Rousseau, Hobbes, and...
This paper examines human society organization in this overview of social institutions, pluralism and elitism differences, case an...
and man, is not so considerable, as that one man can thereupon claim to himselfe any benefit, to which another may not pretend, as...
that the tendency to engage in wars is a human invention, and that the inevitable result of innate human tendencies or instincts. ...
Freedom is cherished the world over. Not all that cherish freedom, however, actually have it. Unfortunately, there is often an i...
of education during Maos command proved extremely difficult to achieve, inasmuch as the entire education system crumbled and the w...
with one another and with figures of authority in order to maximize the best interests of each individual. When left without a cen...
This essay offers evaluation of how conceptualization of the self changed over the centuries, using the works of Vergil, Hobbes an...
Hobbes believed that people, when left to their own governance, that is, without official laws and government, live in continual...
academy the first university of its type, he was able to influence minds of the next generation and proliferate his ideas and meth...
but philosophers also argue that private property rights are necessary (even when they seem unfair) "for the ethical development o...
when it is expressed as a love of virtue, and justice when it is considered as one of many virtues. For Hobbes, self-interest "ta...
and that is that it enables both freedom and necessity to coexist; it favors an ethical reliance on moral deterrence without brini...
the needs of the people as paramount. To derive this point, and other theories related to government, Hobbes paid a great deal of ...
The problem which arose was that if the mind generates all perception, then is our understanding of something "real", meaning of t...
existence. Thus, he sees himself as something more than a victim. He simply has a less desirable fate than some of his peers. Yet,...
(2002) argument is based on his experiences as first a federal prosecutor, then a trial judge, and finally a California Superior C...
as well as the people. When one views the former President of the United States, Bill Clinton, for example, one hardly thinks ab...
to whether or not people need law, or whether or not they can regulate society themselves. The idea of anarchy is supported by som...
deal of power into one ruler (or, at the very least, a collection of rulers who wont end up fighting among themselves)....
that was determined by human will, in that people choose whether or not to keep their promises (Hobbes, 1982). Those that keep th...
speech offers a concise picture of the Athenian perspective on government, the social order and the citizens role in that order. H...
idea of a virtuous republican citizen similar to how one might consider a citizen today. To give power and authority to the indivi...
a prince ... cannot observe all of those virtues for which men are reputed good, because it is often necessary to act against merc...
of his own life; and consequently, of doing anything which, in his own judgement and reason, he shall conceive to be the aptest me...
and a pragmatic one. From its inception, the Constitutional Convention was more concerned with economics than ideals. The majori...