Jacques-Yves Cousteau

Most feminist political thought scholar support the notion that western political thought has failed to include women in the category of “human” and its emancipatory promise is illusory or even dishonest. However, this paper focuses on the strong evidence from Carole Pateman, which she claims that the whole story is not revealed especially with social contract writers. Also, the civilized age with the help of technology, keeps on following the footsteps of the political thought writers to make…

history. People once wanted spices and silks from the east, a multitude of livestock, jewels, clothing, land, and property. John Locke’s Second Treaties of Civil Government, defends this natural drive for wealth, against the claims made by Jean-Jacques Rousseau in his Discourse Upon the Origin and the Foundation of the Inequality Among Mankind, where he blames modernity for the evils of society including theft, murder, and especially political instability. It is only reasonable to believe that…

In “Women Like Us,” Edwidge Danticat explains how in her Haitian culture women are not seen as writers. In “Workers,” Richard Rodriguez talks about his experience working as a construction worker and how having a manual job doesn’t mean people don’t have any education. In “Serving in Florida,” Barbara Ehrenreich talks about how people and herself are struggling to afford a decent living while having a low minimum job. In “Nicomachean Ethics,” Aristotle says how people want to be happy, and…

During the eighteenth century France lived in an era where knowledge was abundant. The most influential thinkers of the day presented the ideas of the Enlightenment, a new European outlook on religion, society, and policies. The ideas that the thinkers examined demonstrate the importance of challenging existing institutions. As a French major, the body of knowledge that the Enlightenment scholars provided a lens into how past ideas can influence modern society. Throughout this essay, knowledge…

The movie of choice to represent the social and moral policies of the Government is Thelma and Louis Movie This movie has to do with two friends who decides to do a road trip to the cabin for two days; while on their trip to the cabin, Thelma decides in the middle to the road trip that she will like to stop and have some fun, although Louis advise her that they are on a tight schedule, Thelma convinces her to stop because she never gets to have fun and this is supposed to be a trip for fun.…

The philosophy of liberalism is the best motivating force for bettering the human condition because it emphasizes the individual over society as a whole. Its central focus is the hope of freedom, individual expression and equality. Other popular terms regarding liberalism include free market, democracy and civil rights. The argument for liberalism grew popular with the coming of the Age of Enlightenment as people longed for more individualism over the tradition authority of monarchs. Of course,…

If men are equal, as Jean-Jacques Rousseau claims in the preface to his discourse on inequality (40), why do some men live in large lavish houses, while others struggle on the street, unsure of their next meal? The distance between the rich and the poor has been increasing steadily over the last decade, but in reality it has been expanding ever since man separated from Rousseau’s original state of nature. The state of nature is different than that which is natural, and within Rousseau’s state of…

Summary of Lavoisier’s Memoir on Combustion in General Antoine Laurent Lavoisier was an 18th century French chemist who worked as a member of the the French Academy of Sciences. In the excerpts of Lavoisier’s Memoir on Combustion in General, he introduces to the other members of the Academy his idea of oxygen and its role in how combustion and calcination occurs. He also explains why the original theory of phlogiston, proposed by Georg Ernst Stahl, is not adequate to explain the two phenomenas.…

Ted Talk Brave New World Jean Jacques Rousseau once said that every man is born free, but everywhere he is in chains. He pointed out that the line between freedom and slavery is a fine one, and how easy it sometimes blends into one. Are we really free, or have we been so conditioned into believing that we are that we have lost the meaning of freedom? Maybe we have inevitably enslaved ourselves, perhaps by the technology we use, or the lives we lead or even by the people around us. For instance,…

On account of the state of nature Locke argues a more humane argument I agree with that all man are equal and not one has more power than another versus Hobbes who argues that it should be a “war of all against all”. A war of “all” seems more like a world of chaos, as to Locke’s argument makes the world seem like a not to shameless of a place to reside in. Though there is no perfect world to live in, his state of nature is a close representation of how to obtain a perfect equality and freedom…