Félix Guattari

Phil 3P97 Take Home Test 3: Deleuze and Guattari Anti-Oedipus Desire has a complicated history to philosophy; for most of philosophy's history they were viewed as fundamentally opposed. Since Plato, philosophy has viewed desire as base and something to be controlled by reason. By emphasizing reason over base desires, philosophy encouraged a pervasive self-denial identified by Nietzsche as the ascetic ideal. The core of this ideology was based on the notion that beliefs should be based upon reason, that these base desires interfered with pure reason, and that these base desires were therefore evil. This was often used to keep the masses subservient and obeying, there was no need for them to fight for a better life, as those in power could…

Court I am mesmerized by its legacy and impact on a more equal society, specifically, Brown v. Board of Education. The unanimous decision, that took two years to decide, is one that should act as a model for all Courts thereafter as to the resolute need for a depolarized Court. A two-year deliberation followed by a unanimous decision would not have been the case if the Roberts Court had decided Brown. United States v. Windsor, one of the most memorable civil rights cases’ of the current Court,…

Andrew Napolitano is a former judge of the Superior Court of New Jersey, is the senior judicial analyst at Fox News Channel. Judge Napolitano has written nine books on the U.S. Constitution. His background asserts that he is a reputable individual who is qualified to speak on this topic. Though his background in law and the judicial systems will give him the purpose to make his argument favor the constitution as it is interpreted. Napolitano closes with a quote from Supreme Court Justice Felix…

Johann Sebastian Bach Johann Sebastian Bach was born in Eisenach, Germany on March 31st, 1685. He was raised in a family of musicians. Johann Sebastian Bach learned to play the harpsichord, organ, and violin. Bach came from generations of musicians. Johann's father taught him to play the violin and harpsichord when he was young and his father was also a musician in Eisenach. Johann Sebastian Bach was also influenced by his famous uncle Johann Christoph, a organist at the Georgenkirche in…

activism"), which injected its own legal views into constitutional law regarding issues like states rights, state elections, criminal procedures, criminal penalties, regulation of freedom of speech and press, to porn, some members of that court were appointed based solely on their belief in the New Deal, would be the only possible kind of justices to save this country and unanimously overrule Plessy in Brown v. Board of Education (1954). Truth be told, and just as Supreme Court Justices who…

Franklin Delano Roosevelt appointed a total of seven justices to the U.S. Supreme Court. Author and professor of Law at Harvard, writer Noah Feldman, focuses on the Supreme Court of FDR in his book Scorpions, particularly the stories of the four most influential and revolutionary justices: Felix Frankfurter, Hugo Black, William O. Douglas, and Robert Jackson. Feldman seeks to analyze what influenced each justices’ decisions in the court, and follows their evolution on the bench. Overall, Feldman…

new leadership of Chief Justice Warren, comprises were made, and most justices came on board. The only two who remained were Justices Jackson and Reed. Yet, after Jackson had a frightening heart attacks, the justice consented to join the majority. In the end, Warren convinced Reed to join out of fear of him fighting the case on his own, and being blamed for any resistance in Brown (402). Thus, in the case of Brown vs. Board of Education, these differing men were able to put aside their usual…

On Sunday October 11, 2015, I attended the Regina Musical Club’s, Trio concertante at the University of Regina. The concert was performed by 3 musicians, Nancy Dahn who played the violin, Simon Fryer who played the cello, and Tim Steeves who played the piano. The concert was made up of three pieces. The first one was Beethoven’s Piano trio in G major Op.1 No.2 which was published in 1795. The second was Fryderyk’s Chopin’s, Chopin in G minor Op.8 which was written and published in 1829. And…

protection clause. Thus, Muller was a monumental achievement in women’s legal realm and in that respect, laid the foundation of Bunting decision which concerned male laborers’ rights under the same amendment. With Bunting, the amendment’s universal protection of people irrespective of their gender became evident when the reformers made a state protection applicable to male laborers. Franklin Bunting was charged with Oregon labor law violation by making his employee work overtime without…

Imagine a university professor accuses a student of cheating on a final exam. Before the student can defend herself, the university decides to expel the student. Understandably, the student decides she wants to challenge the expulsion as a violation of her due process rights. Can the student challenge the action? Surprisingly, the answer depends on which federal circuit the student lives in. In 1975, the United States Supreme Court held that state law could provide primary students a…