Kimberley Locke

“Your character will be what you yourself choose to make it” is a quote by British naturalist and politician, John Lubbock. I strongly agree with his quote for several reasons. I believe Lubbock’s meaning behind his quote is that no person can allow society to determine the mental characteristics he or she contains. In all seven billion people in the world, not a single one of them carries the same characteristics as any other person. If society is in control of how we act then it is impossible…

The Enlightenment lacked spontaneity and it was rather a result of the few individuals who viewed society through a lens that was not exclusively related to Christian teachings and greatly contributed to the development of reason. There a wide variety of philosophes who contributed to the debates on liberty; however, the French philosopher, Voltaire (née François Marie Arouet, 1694-1778), is among the most influential of the philosophes. As a member of the Moderate Enlightenment, Voltaire…

The Age of Enlightenment and the Romantic Movement The age of enlightenment is commonly understood by historians as a period of seminal change in political, philosophical and spiritual attitudes and ideas in the Western World, specifically in Europe. Changes so drastic that they would come to define the world we live in today. Beginning approximately in 1620 and ending around 1780, the Enlightenment consisted of a change from religious faith to reason as a means of understanding the world, and…

For the most part, philosophies of social contracts are developed from a heuristic perspective of human conditions known as the natural state or conditions that are lack social order. From this perspective, philosophers like Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Thomas Hobbes attempt to explain the nature of humans and the rationality that was involved in giving up some of their freedom to create social structures. These theories, nonetheless differ widely on the basis of the author account and the natural…

“The people should not be afraid of the government, the government should be afraid of the people.” These are the words said by V in the movie V for Vendetta. But how can a citizen live in an authoritarian state? How can a dictator achieve absolute control of power? By definition, authoritarianism is a government that governs without the consent of those being governed. In authoritarian states, there is only one ruler whether it may be a king, a military leader, dictator or even a president…

century, Thomas Hobbes and John Locke were philosophers who developed beliefs about the nature of man, which influenced their political philosophies and ideas about the social contract between the people and their government. Thomas Hobbes believed that all humans were naturally wicked and selfish. He stated that without a government there would be war with every man against each other and life would be solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short. Meanwhile, John Locke believed that all humans…

According to Aristotle, “Man is by nature a social animal” (Aristotle 5). We all need people around us to overcome our problems with their help and support. Holden Caulfield, from The Catcher In The Rye by J.D. Salinger and Angela Chase, from TV series called My So-Called Life, both are teenagers in high school. Holden and Angela both have family relationship problems, how they try to overcome their problems is what differs Angela from Holden. Angela has problems with her parents about how…

Abstract John Rawls in his work “Theory of Justice” explains that in order to have complete social justice in society we need a state which does no discrimination and provides some basic standard of living and looks after those who don’t have the sufficient means to support themselves. In his work Rawls has supported the idea that the state should provide the basic standard of living to all. Introduction Welfare state is a concept of state in which the government takes an active role in…

first pondered by philosophers. Thinkers Jean Jacques Rousseau and John Locke both pioneered these concepts in their works, and though their theories of a legitimate state mirrored each other in certain regards, their ideas also differed about what freedom and equality should look like. While both agree that a legitimate state must eliminate societal inequality, Rousseau believes that it should increase the freedom of men, and Locke argued for the necessity of men giving up their natural…

John Stuart Mill the liberal and Jean-Jacques Rousseau the republican, are two political philosophers whom focussed on the integration of political liberty with the relationship found between that of the individual, society and the state by the means of power or authority. Both of these political thinkers formed their arguments in their writings, namely; On Liberty (1859) by Mill, and The Social Contract (1913) by Rousseau. On a more specific scale, their views differed in much contrast, whereby…