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religion and not the Shogunate’s military strength that helped to legitimize Tokugawa’s rule and peace during the Edo period. (5) Neo-Confucianism was the philosophical basis for the political and socioeconomic order of the society. It acts as ethical clause combining good conduct in social life to appropriate conduct of the government. (Tipton 5) Furthermore, it rationalized that in order to have peace in the society, everyone has to commit to his responsibilities. (Tipton 5) This rationalized…

southern neighbors. So why does it appear that the loyalties held by Canada run significantly deeper than their geographical neighbor? He credits this phenomenon to the fact that Canada was not yet viable as a stand-alone nation and was heavily dependent on their mother country, Britain. Contrastingly, American colonies certainly were capable of being independent,…

Lindon Johnson who was a senator from Texas inherited and continued the liberal democratic policy by John F. Kennedy like fighting poverty and discriminations. Johnson was about to declare war on poverty and also created the aid to the families with dependent children. The Vietnam war could have been avoided but the United States converted and made Vitamin who was a former alley into an enime because, they were a communist nation which happened to be the nemisstst to American capitalism. This…

Act utilitarianism has slightly different connotations depending on the philosopher being discussed. However, the general contemporary act utilitarian defines an action as morally necessary only if there is no other action that would produce an equal or greater amount of happiness. In line with this contemporary definition, Bentham recognized the fundamental role of pleasure and pain in the human life and used his knowledge to create an act utilitarian measure of actions. Bentham approves or…

The years between 1860 and 1870 presented the people of the United States and their politicians with many social and constitutional dilemmas. These challenges have been escalating through years. The Civil War and other historical events would bring the United States to the forefront of a drastic transformation. This would have lasting implications on not only those who lived through the time period, but also those who would live in the future, revolutionary America. The social and…

The new document upheld the institution of slavery for some time. It protected the Trans-Atlantic slave trade until 1808, which reinforced the bondage of Africans. It also included the Fugitive Slave Clause, which stated that individuals who escaped from bondage were to be returned to their owners and that slaveowners could venture into free territory in order to reclaim their slaves (Trotter 137). The Constitution also addressed slavery through the…

This paper will discuss the differences between Kant’s Categorical Imperative, the Golden Rule, and the Silver Rule. I will begin by introducing the definition of Kant’s categorical imperative along with the three formulations that it consists of. This will be followed by an explanation of the golden and silver rule, in addition to how the origins are steeply in connect with religion. As a final point I will discuss the juxtaposition between Kant’s categorical imperative, the golden rule and…

The relationship between the federal, state, and local governments is an important relationship that has evolved with the changes of American politics over time. Many scholars that study these relationships prefer the term “Intergovernmental Relations,” rather than “Federalism,” because of their knowledge of how the governments actually work. Federalism, as defined by Robert Christensen and Laurence O’Toole Jr, is the system of authority constitutionally apportioned between central and regional…

surely one of the weakest arguments against homosexuality (Davies, 2012:617). The most charitable form of the argument is as follows. When an act causes wider society to feel disgust, typically on a level fundamental to humanity, that act is wrong (the clause of it being fundamental to humanity pre-emptively negates the subjectivity rebuttal) (Leiser, 1997:263). When the argument is clearly explicated, it evidently has no persuasive power. This is due to the lack of a clear link…

Similarly Calhoun influenced some Native American legislation and treaties, it is useful to understand the events that led to such treaties and the information that he produced in order to defend and assist the wording and clauses of these treaties. While inspecting the official Presidential view of the United States from DC within James Calhoun’s correspondence, the personal standpoint of the respective President must be considered. Although this dissertation does not focus…