Civil engineer

Rousseau states in his second discourse “The first man who, having enclosed off a piece of land, got the idea of saying ‘This is mine’ and found people simple enough to believe him was the true founder of civil society” (Rousseau, 19). Although this was not a “law” because it was the start of civilization and there was not a sanctioning body, it is similar in the sense that there was a rule for the first time, and likely a consequence of physical harm if…

between liberty and the civil state. The civil state is a potential threat to the liberty of its citizens. For both authors this liberty exists naturally in the state of nature. Both authors use the state of nature to establish that liberty preceded political society and how a properly designed government can maintain this natural liberty. Because their method of deriving the ideal state from the state of nature is the same, the stark difference between Locke’s and Rousseau’s civil state must be…

object is in motion and continues down a slope, it tends to gain speed and momentum – the same goes for the civil rights movement that has continued into the 21st century, only changing its name from 1954 to present. Being spearheaded by many great activists like Malcom X, Martin Luther King Jr, and James Baldwin, the outcry for justice was lead to success and to a less violent course. With civil unrest rising in today’s society, can we rely on another Baldwin or Malcom X to rise from the…

need for a civil state. “Rousseau’s perception for the rejuvenation of the individual and society was not a return to the original state of nature” (p.17). He believed that the repairing of a society would only be possible if all members of that society shared the construction of laws for their common happiness equally; therefore the sovereign authority would reside in the General Will. This in turn meant all members surrendering their individual rights to the community in return for civil…

The law cannot change beliefs. In the case of the sub-Saharan African, there is a fundamental issue with their beliefs of witchcrafts. They believe that every evil and misfortune that is incapable of rational explanation is blamed on witchcraft (P476). A people of that kind of thinking can 't be convinced otherwise by laws or rewritten laws, in other words, the codification of the law that Bentham proposes will not help the sub-Saharan African in this particular predicament. Codification…

Intro: In agreement to both Thoreau and King, one must transgress a physical change towards an unjust law with the ideals of civil disobedience. Both leaders had the same concept of ideas about civil rights but, show their point of view differently. Fighting for equal rights in the United States was never easy. The “Declaration of Independence” written by Thomas Jefferson discusses the ideas of equal rights for both men and women. Jefferson explains every single person has the right to be…

Martin Luther King experienced during the time of racism and Jim Crow views towards people of color. While fighting to lift the curse of Jim Crow laws in the United States, as the world looked at it, King was incarcerated in Birmingham, Alabama for his Civil Rights movement, which was considered extreme for its great social and political changes that were evidently salient from the beginning of the peaceful protest. In “Letter from Birmingham Jail,” King addresses and rebuts the contradicting…

Philosophy is a very influential field of study. It allows for some professors to ask some very poignant questions. For instance, what would happen if a group of children were removed from civilization and placed into the wilderness on a remote island with no hope of rescue? Depending on the philosopher, one would receive conflicting answers to this question. The children would form a government and try to cooperate to survive, or the youth would devolve into a state of chaos with no laws or…

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and Desmond Tutu hold different beliefs on how to achieve justice for all. In his letter, “Letter From A Birmingham Jail”, Martin Luther King, Jr. implies that the nonviolent method is the ideal strategy to gain justice for all. On the other hand, Desmond Tutu, in the excerpt, No Future without Forgiveness, claims that forgiveness is the way to achieve justice for all because it helps create a better future. While both methods are uniquely effective, Dr. King’s…

In Antigone, by Sophocles, and Civil Disobedience by Henry David Thoreau, democracy takes light over an authoritarian regime through the use of one’s moral conscience to invalidate the state and its unjustness. Antigone for instance, holds by her moral decision that her brother deserves a proper burial regardless of what King Creon, the state in this instance, has intended for Polyneices. Although it leads to her untimely death, Antigone stands up for her higher moral conscience similarly to how…