Jacques-Yves Cousteau

Creation myths teach the beliefs of origin, values, and common knowledge of a group of people, however, they vary from tribe to tribe. In both the Iroquois myth, “The World on the Turtle’s Back”, and the Yoruba myth, “The Golden Chain”, men have good in their nature. The beliefs in the Iroquois myth teaches that all life has balance. The Yoruba myth teaches that men are more often good than bad. The Iroquois gods do not display guilt, while the Yoruba people express remorse and abstain from…

In the modern society we live in today with nuclear warheads, “super bugs”, and incompetent politicians none of these are viewed as the most fragile and most vital part of at the world, the social structure is. A solidified social structure is needed for the start of a culture so no one is looking for meaning or wondering what they need to do in life. The great thing about a social structure is that 90 percent of people feel incredibly included and wanted in the society but what about the other…

Thomas Robert Malthus, known as Robert, was born at the Rookery on February 13, 1766. At an early age he showed signs of high intelligence. He received private tutoring until in 1784 he entered Jesus College located in Cambridge. He studied for clergy while simultaneously reading about mathematics and philosophy. Similarly to Adam Smith, Malthus was impressed by Newton and read Newton’s books including Philosophias Naturalis Principia Mathematica. The Master of Jesus College warned Malthus that…

Social Contract And Popular Sovereignty The social contracts stems from individuals coming together to form a sort of agreement to, which is central in making a society. Not only form a society but to make it a better place. Law, State and the constitution are all by-products of society; here we see the stepping-stone from people being people, to it becoming sovereign. All theories conclude that people make this social contract for protection of their being and also their property. They all…

Social Inequality and the Right to Labor in Locke’s Second Treatise; In Locke’s Second Treatise, there is an apparent tension between a citizen’s right to accumulate what can be ma[d]e use of to any advantage of [human] life before it spoils” and the citizen’s responsibility to leave “enough, and as good […] in common for others” (§31; §27). With the invention of money, laborers are able to overcome the spoilage limitation and possess unequal amounts of property; the question is whether this…

Blog # 1: The Social Contract After reading Rousseau’s Social Contract, I’ve come to realize just how pervasive social contracts are in our society. The main philosophical question The Social Contract attempts to answer is how we can we be free and live together? Put another away, how can we live together without succumbing to the force and authority of others. Rousseau believes that this can be accomplished by submitting our individual wills to the general will, created through agreement with…

Society has a huge influence on whom people are and what people become. They have impacted in people's view on what is right or wrong and people's perspective. Many citizens want to break free from society including Bernard, John and Helmholtz. Bernard is an outcast and disagrees with the ideals of society. Society makes people take a drug called soma, but Bernard does not agree with society's control on how people should feel. When approached by Henry Foster to take soma, Bernard refuses to…

For centuries, male intellectuals argued that the nature of women is inferior to men and made male domination of women necessary. However, the new movement for women?fs right called feminism was born in the age of Enlightenment. The strongest statement was advanced by the English writer Mary Wollstonecraft. She argued that women should have equal rights with men in education, as well as in economic and political life. Enlightenment thought had some impact on the political life and social…

directly consent to this system, but rather give tacit consent. As such, the question must be asked: “What was the period called before tacit consent was present in society?” Many political philosophers, such as Thomas Hobbes, John Locke, and Jean Jacques Rousseau have called the period before society “the state of nature.” Hobbes, Locke, and Rousseau all agree on the hypothetical starting point of the state of nature, but they disagree on the details. Both Hobbes and Locke agree that the…

How is human existence improved or degraded after the passage of nature to society? Aristotle feels that not only is human existence greatly improved by society but society is absolutely necessary for him to truly and fully experience his existence. Aristotle claims that humanity is only self-sufficient in a society. "The complete community...is the city. It reaches a level of full self- sufficiency, so to speak; and while coming into being for the sake of living, it exists for the sake of…