Civil society

shifts in our culture have brought about a series of long term effects and consequences that we still face today. Movements such as the Civil Rights Movement and the Feminist Movement helped pave the way for people in today’s society to advocate for their own causes and those of others through increased activism. The social and racial upheavals found in today’s society span many areas, such as politics, gender equality, religion and sexual identity. In politics, we face the passage of new…

Indeed the dying and killing in the civil war had an enormous effect on all segments of American society. The dying and killing changed life in America during and after the war. Just as faust stated “ neither side could have imagined the magnitude and length of the conflict that unfolded, nor the death tolls that proved its terrible cost.” faust the lost cause(2) The death tolls were so tremendous nobody ever imagined such a war. The death toll outnumbered any war America has gotten into…

Khailah Ayroso-Lunamcgee When Action is Needed Civil disobedience both negatively and positively impacts a free society. On one hand civil disobedience can have negative effects on a free society for the reason being that when there is a group of individuals going against the masses it causes separation within the society. But on the other hand civil disobedience has been proven to be one of the most successful strategies in bringing about change that in most instances was long overdue. History…

origin of the political order and the legitimacy of human society. Men in Locke’s theory give up their perfect freedom in the state of nature to secure the advantages of civilized society (Locke 495). The role of the government then is to protect the natural rights of all namely man’s property and liberty (Locke 493). According to Rousseau, men in their natural state have equality and liberty but they lose these when they enter the civil society. Civilization corrupts men. So, the…

justice and morality in both in the State of Nature and within civil societies. Hobbes enforces that individuals do not have any moral obligations in the State of Nature or within civil society, but instead all decisions are made with rationality. Therefore, legitimacy and justice are based upon his notional of rationality and the validity of covenants created. Locke argues that humans are moral in both the State of Nature and in civil society and what makes the government legitimate is due to…

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…

the Philippines and Thailand prove to be enigmatic in that regard. I argue that we see a largely active civil society but low democratization in Thailand and the Philippines owing to their authoritarian histories and lack of democratic institutionalization. I chose to use these two countries as my case studies because they share similarities in quality of democracy and degree of civil society activity; their histories are comparable and their futures seem parallel. In order to present a…

present themselves as very distinct philosophers. They both use similar terms, such as, the State of Nature, but conceptualize them differently. In my paper, I will argue that Locke’s argument on his proposed state of nature and civil society is more realistic in our working society than Rousseau’s theory. At the core of their theories, Locke and Rousseau both agree that we all begin in a State of Nature in that everyone should be “equal one amongst another without subordination or subjection,” …

* Organizational development and sustainability advisory services and coaching. * Managing and sharing knowledge with other NGOs, the public and private sectors. * Networking and interchange among NGOs, the public and private sectors, for policy analysis, skill improvement and information sharing. Strategy for involving citizens in development process Well-designed development projects (such as those that have been financed through social funds) can be a catalyst for community…

laws are “the conditions of civil association”, meaning that the laws are created by the citizens and are to be followed and enforced by the citizens. No law can go into effect unless everyone agrees to…