Jacques-Yves Cousteau

Rousseau begins his argument on the conception of freedom that goes contradictory to that of Mill. In this sense, he suggests that society must undergo a transformation or transition from the natural state to the civil state society, and that this society may be considered both free and subject to some legitimate form of political authority. Rousseau believes that this political authority is not found in the natural state, which he considers limited only by the power of natural superiority or…

Life. Jean-Jacques Rousseau was born in Geneva the 28th June 1712, and died the 2nd July 1778 in Ermenonville, France. Swiss-born philosopher, writer, and political theorist whose treatises and novels inspired the leaders of the French Revolution and the Romantic generation. His ideas were about political and ethical thinking with which he had a profound impact on people´s way of life. Formative Years Rousseau’s mother died in childbirth, and he was grown up by his father. His father was a…

In the social liberty, it can be tackled from few aspects, such as rights, freedom, equality, religion and toleration. Both Locke and Marx believed on rights and obligations of human but Locke believed that human entitles for rights such as right for life, liberty and health along with his line of natural rights theory, but Marx attacked his view, arguing that human rights purposed by Locke was merely a doctrine in advancing the interest of private property. In his view, every right was the…

Tekakwitha’s life changed Figure 1. Painting of Kateri Tekakwitha clutching a cross (“Tekakwitha Kateri”). beyond return the day Jacques de Lamberville dipped her head under water while making the sign of the cross (Bowden). Following Tekakwitha’s Baptism, she slept on a bed of thorns, constantly fasted, arranged for a flagellation, stood in the snow for hours praying the rosary and…

Jean Jacques Rousseau was born on June 28th, 1712, to Isaac Rousseau and Suzanne Bernard in Geneva, Switzerland. He grew up mainly with his father, as his only brother had run away while he was still a child, and his mother passed away days after his birth. From an early age his father educated him with ancient Greek and Roman literature. After years passed, Isaac had an argument with a French captain and had to flee Geneva permanently at the risk of imprisonment. At that point Rousseau went…

John Locke’s philosophies are characterized as one of the first forms of liberalism. His political thought was a source for the founding principles of the United States. Locke’s philosophies advocate liberty, equality and freedom from oppressive government. Yet, in The Second Treatise on Civil Government, Locke justifies the colonization and disempowerment of Native Americans and Africans in his discussions of freedom, property and slavery. In The Racial Contract, Charles W. Mills exposes the…

With trillions of dollars being spent annually on healthcare in the United States, it is an integral part of both the country’s economy and to its citizens' wellbeing. The US, for decades, tended to grant more freedom to its citizens and, consequently, maintained a completely private healthcare industry. Supporting a more active role of government, other countries often control a socially funded healthcare system. These ways of approaching healthcare are a consequence of fundamentally different…

Jean-Jacques Rousseau would agree with Sigmund Freud’s quote because Rousseau also believed in making sacrifices for the general good as the individual, and that what you give you should receive. “Rousseau advocated the elimination of the political despotism,…

Pale sea foam softly laps the waterlogged body of three-year-old Aylan Kurdi in an image that crystallized the senseless suffering of thousands of Syrian refugees. Though the photo undoubtedly confronts its global audience with a reality that, oceans away, is easy to passively accept, could a single image really inspire viewers to take progressive action? As ocean levels rise, poverty ravages the third world, and both sexual and racial discrimination run rampant, it seems clear that something…

Rousseau's work was championed by the likes of Karl Marx and Immanuel Kant in that echoes of Rousseau can be seen consistently throughout Critique of Pure Reason by Kant and the Communist Manifesto by Marx. By that measure and from all which followed in the wake of Rousseau, his ideas about the corruption of the pure human by the evils of society, coupled with the "general will" philosophy of domination of the few by the many are clearly totalitarian in nature and fringe thought. With that…