Karl Rahner

Workers, Populist, and Progressives During the 19th Century workers were dissatisfied with the capitalist government, and the new industrial order. Industrialization, urbanization, and immigration were modifying the American society following reconstruction. From this discontent, sprouted two new ideologies which are the Populist and Progressives. Workers suffered terrible conditions, and it was difficult for them to be heard since there were more workers than jobs. Because of this, workers…

Rusert, B. "Delany’s Comet: Fugitive Science and the Speculative Imaginary of Emancipation." American Quarterly, vol. 65 no. 4, 2013, pp. 799-829. Print. Thesis: In the 19th century U.S., race science was used to justify the treatment of enslaved African Americans and other minorities being treated as lesser beings. Yet at the same time, when slaves were brought across the Atlantic, they helped to reshape the way the nation would operate and its many understandings of science. Rusert argues…

Communist Manifesto The Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels was written during a time that society had a lot going on. The society was a communist society which was where the wealthiest people collected most resources. So, the people were separated into economic classes based on wealth. The economic classes were the bourgeoisie and the proletarians. The bourgeoisie were the middle class who owned businesses with the goal of earning a profit and controlled all elements of…

Introduction In this paper, I will discuss positivist, biological, as well as psychological theories providing a comparison as well as contrast for each. Discussion The use of positivist theories emerged with the American, French, as well as the Industrial Revolutions prompting tremendous social changes throughout the world (Bohm & Vogel, 2011). In 1820, the term positivism was attributed to Auguste Comte during his works with Saint-Simon while developing their works of physical sciences in…

Eagleton is a Marxist that is also a British literary theorist and critic. He was really interested in morality, ethics, and the question of truth. Reading “After Theory” Chapter 5 “ Truth, Virtue, and Objectivity”. In this chapter Eagleton talked about Truth, Virtue, Morality, Objectivity, and Ethics. This is because of the modern capitalistic society that we live in. When I was reading the chapter you can really see how Eagleton dissects how postmodernist see and understand Truth, Virtue,…

Although Hobbes, in his work “Leviathan,” and Marx, in his work “Manifesto of the Communist Party,” both discuss conflict¬¬¬— they differ about the ideal society, the main source of conflict, and the use of conflict generally. Many philosophers have differing views when it comes to the topic of an ideal society; Hobbes and Marx are no different. While Hobbes believes humans should seek to achieve a peaceful society free from conflict, Marx states that the ideal society is a society free from…

In Chapter 4 of A Novel Approach to Politics Van Bell discusses two of the major economic systems in use throughout the world, Capitalism and Socialism, and their fatal flaws. Capitalism’s fatal flaw, described as the Tragedy of the Commons, is an overexploitation of a resource. Socialism on the other hand solves Capitalism’s fatal flaw by regulation, but creates its own fatal flaw, Socialism is not good at producing goods only distributing them. An example of the Tragedy of the Commons is the…

What is in Control? In Deleuze’s essay on the “Postscript on the Societies of Control” he explains that we have moved from a disciplinary society to a society of control. He uses Foucault’s description of the disciplinary society to move into the control society. The disciplinary society we once lived in has us moving from one closed environment to another, with each holding its own form of law and expectations. From home, to school, to factory, we used to move in these enclosed environments,…

Natural capitalism, as described by Lovins and Hawkin, is a new and improved principal for capitalism. It is their belief that capitalism cannot be considered as such unless natural capitalism is considered. To achieve natural capitalism there are a set of requirements that need to be considered. The first being, the environment is an essential factor of production and as such and must be considered when deliberating on things such as prices of goods. The second requirement that is raised is…

The Communist Manifesto written by Karl Marx and Fredrich Engels is a well-known political piece of writing. It’s been around since the late 1850`s and has contributed to revolutions around the world based off the message it conveys to the readers. The writing of Marx and Engels attempts to enlighten and mobilize readers who feel their message is true against a certain group of people. Marx and Engels openly explain the problems with capitalism and how there has been a huge gap between social…