Jacques de Lamberville

It is considered that without education man is like an animal. Education has modified the man’s life and change the whole scenario. It makes a person civilized, energetic, creative, constructive, independent and right thinker. All these characteristics are developed by a teacher in student centered classroom where the teacher’s role is like a guide. Conventional Teaching Approach has remained dominant at the secondary as well as senior secondary level in our education system in which students…

Adam Smith theorized about the birth of the division of labor. His observation and explanation made it much more possible to identify how societies naturally move towards capitalism and the implications it has on societies. Jean Jacques Rousseau also theorized at great length about the progression of mankind and the motivation that led to the creation of government. Rousseau and Smith shared similar beliefs about how societies were formed and how the division of labor came to be. However, they…

Lord of the Flies and The Philosophies of Jean-Jacques Rousseau Organized society is one of the oldest and most extensively studied aspects of human history. During the Enlightenment, the pinnacle of societal exploration, European philosophers were encouraged to question their beliefs and government, which eventually prompted each to form separate theories on how humans and society should interact. These ideas were about society and human nature, and are explored thoroughly in William Golding’s…

Locke is one the most important philosophers when it comes to the western world. He was used in his political views for the creation of the declaration of independence. Besides his political views this paper will be talking predominantly about his metaphysical ones: the first one is of his view of the human mind and how we are blank slates and use primary and secondary qualities to create our experiences, second is his points on freewill and how we choose our freedom, and the state of nature and…

Politics are considered as the master of sciences through which all human beings try to achieve a better life for themselves. At the beginning of human history monarchs tried to govern societies based on their own beliefs and consequently, the ‘shape’ of said cultures were launched to have some alterations relying on the governance rules. It might have taken up to several centuries for the ruling classes to have formed rules and regulations bearing the societies needs and that is the time to…

If a man in a Hobbesian State of Nature were presented with the choice of whether to enter into a Hobbesian social contract, would it be in his best interest to do so? In this essay, I will summarize the conditions of both the State of Nature and rule by a Hobbesian sovereign as well as present the benefits and detriments of both states of life. Having presented the facts of the choice, it will be evident that the man in the State of Nature should, according to his best interest, agree to the…

association… and maintain eternal harmony among us” . The poor, or disadvantaged men, supported this notion of the state for it encourages ambition and envy, guised as opportunity for social mobility as long as the work hard within the system. Rousseau described the creation of this institution as the destroyer of natural liberty, and “eternally fixed the law of property and inequality… [and] subjected all mankind to perpetual labour, slavery, and wretchedness.” For these laws ensured…

According to Rousseau, the general will is a collectively held will that aims at common good or common interest. People sharing common interest will make a better community, state and nation. He argues that by giving up individual rights and interests, people will comply with the general will. In addition, Rousseau says, that people should build a community to which they completely devote or surrender themselves “What these different interests have in common is what forms the social bond, and if…

what is right and what is wrong when it comes to behavior, that they should abide by. during the period of time known as the Enlightenment people questioned religious doctrines and traditional values. Immanuel Kant, Adam Smith, Voltaire and Jean-Jacques Rousseau all wrote may papers detailing their beliefs and philosophes. These authors all share in the belief that humans have the ability if they choose to, to change not only their life circumstances and ways of thinking but that of others too,…

Now that the main ideas of Rousseau’s political thought have been exposed, the sense of ‘forced to be free can be explained by dividing the paragraph in that the phrase is located. “In order for the social compact not to be an ineffectual formula, it tacitly includes the following engagement, which alone can give force to the others: that whoever refuses to obey the general will shall be constrained to do so by the entire body; which means only that one will force him to be free. For this is the…