Jacques-Yves Cousteau

The fact that there is a debate on whether health care is a right of every American or not is just astonishing. How is it that there are people deciding whether other human beings should have rights? What makes those people who are deciding the “worthy” ones? It honesty baffles me that some think that just because someone is poor, a minority, a woman, or of a different sexual orientation then suddenly they don’t have certain rights, and eventually there could be a vote for them to have it or to…

Karl Marx, more than any other political philosopher, changed the course of human history with his works, and love him or hate him it is impossible to look through history without seeing the mark he left on it (Reiss, 1: 1997). Through the cold war and his influence on Lenin and Stalin, across China and North Korea, close to home in Cuba, the effects of Marx is everywhere. Though many have said that the age of Marx is dead, and that his theories did not or perhaps never held water, this ignores…

AE #5: Formal Visual Analysis  The Death of Marat by Jacques-Louis David a. The medium of the artwork was oil on canvas. b. The work’s dimensions is 5 ft. 3 in x 4 ft. and 1 in. c. The Death of Marat was originally created in France, but can now be found at the Royal Museum of Fine Arts of Belgium. d. The genre of the painting is history. e. Jacques-Louis David painted the Death of Marat as a memorial to Jean Marat, who was a dear friend of his. f. When David originally painted the Death of…

Jean-Jacques Rousseau was born on June 28, 1712 in Geneva, Switzerland. He was raised by his aunt and uncle, because his mother died shortly after he was born, and his father abandoned him. Rousseau became an apprentice for an engraver when he was thirteen years old, but he ran away when he was sixteen. A while later, he took a job as Madame Louise de Warens’ secretary. Madame Louise de Warens influenced many of Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s philosophical ideas and writings. When Jean was thirty…

The article “Individual Autonomy and Social Structure” by Dorothy Lee demonstrates how law, limits and personal autonomy can coexists effectively without limiting an individual’s own freedom and their way of living in society. A key social problem in our present society is that it has become difficult to respect individual integrity and that we have forgotten the principles of conformity, freedom of choice and personal autonomy. In her article she examines several societies in which she argues…

Jean Jacques Rousseau and Edmond Burke disagree on many viewpoints and political ideas. Both men clearly state their ideas in their writings. Rousseau and Burke have both seen the French and American Revolutions. Although, they were not able to see the repercussions of the wars they endured. Both men grew up in different environments and thus had different views on the world. Rousseau believed in political, economic, and social changes of civilizations when there is the belief that a more modern…

Freedom is a foundation that guides the framework of everyday society. It is a principle that is responsible for the creation of law, government, institutions, behavior and so forth. As Americans, we have found ourselves fortunate enough to be guided by a democratic government that serves to protect the freedoms of the individuals who proudly chant the motto, “Land of the Free and Home of the Brave”. Yet, often people fail to truly understand what freedom means. In order to do so, it is critical…

The Enlightenment was a movement that spread all throughout Europe during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. It emphasized individualism and reason instead of tradition and absolutism. Historically speaking , "Enlightenment" refers to the change in normal European ways of thinking and old ideas. It was rooted in several fields, including ideas on religion, science, and truth and reason. The Enlightenment Era was a revolutionary age that abolished old ideas while introducing new ways of…

When examining the question of whether John Rawls would consider Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s ideal society in the Social Contract fair, it is important to not only understand Rousseau’s ideal society more closely, but also understand what Rawls defines as being fair. First, the society that Rousseau proposes as the ideal one is based off of his concept of the nature of men. Men are born free and it is society that enslaves them, therefore, the goal of his ideal society is one that protects the…

In John Locke and Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s theories, the state of nature is pre-political. It aims to explain the 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…