Leviathan

Mr. Joyfellow felt 73.674 years old exactly to the third decimal place. Although he sometimes hated this number to the nearest tenth, today he hated it down to the thousandth, and would have even if the thousandth's place were zero. Disgusted by the necessary cliché of waking, he shuffled off to the kitchen as his stomach requested of him (rather impolitely, he thought). He had once been a man of regularity to the point of eccentricity, but that was less a trait of himself than of the past, and…

Egoism is the theory that people are, and should be, selfish and base their actions on what is going to benefit them the most. Many philosophers including Thomas Hobbes, Macaulay, Herbert Spencer and Aristotle supported and wrote about this theory. There are variations of egoism. One of them is the descriptive which states that people are motivated by their own interests and desires, and no one is exempt from this. The normative variant proposes that people should be driven by their own desires…

President Eisenhower was correct that an outside governmental entity would try to hinder our democracy for its own benefit. However, he was wrong about which entity would accomplish this goal first. The prison industrial complex has grown into a leviathan that threatens much more than our…

Mohammad Gumma Mrs. Staton AP European History 14 October 2015 Prompt: Evaluate the extent to which political and social factors affected the work of scientists in the sixteenth and seventeenth century. The Restrictions and Magnetisms of Scientific Efforts Throughout the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, there was an emergence of new fundamentals and a modernized view of the natural world. This period came to be established as the Scientific Revolution. Centered in Europe, the intellectual…

Plato’s story of Gyge’s ring tells of a shepherd that finds a gold ring carrying the power to make its owner invisible. Gyge’s uses the ring for his personal gain by going invisible to murder the king and take over the kingdom. Plato’s story suggests “that it is more reasonable to be unjust – if we have the opportunity to do so without getting caught” and concludes that “if a just man and an unjust man both wore the same ring … their actions would be no different” (Boss, p. 201). Ethical egoism…

Every human has civil rights, political rights, and social rights. These human rights were establish by nature and clarified by the philosopher John Locke. He wrote up a social contract that established the authority of state over the individual that make up the state. Mr. Locke claims that individuals have consented, to submit some freedoms and surrender to the government or the law of the land. These concessions are made in good faith that the state or nation can protect civil, political, and…

Quite a bit of our insight about state strategy under the Mauryas originates from the Arthashastra composed by Kautilya (all the more famously known as Chanakya), who was a Brahmin pastor under Chandragupta Maurya. In spite of the fact that it was composed toward the end of the fourth century BC, it seems to have been rediscovered just in 1905, following quite a while of insensibility. The treatise in its present structure is in all probability not the content composed by Kautilya, however it is…

“Oh good god, could you guys keep it down up there? I’m trying to sleep, and you nine are making it really fucking difficult.” The people above me being the six devil kings, Yahweh, Ddraig, and Albion, all trying to kill each other. In my world. Really frickin’ loudly. All this happened because I was hitting on Gabriel, Michael gets angered, somehow mistaking me for a devil, and gets his dad to start a war, which dragged in the Fallen Angels, while the two dragons were fighting each other. The…

Scientific Revolution to Enlightenment Gregory R. Bowen History 2321: World Civilizations II March 05, 2017 Science, Enlightenment, and Revolution The effect the Enlightenment had in shaping the modern world as we know it, is undeniable; the notion of reason, thought, and democracy all find their origin in the movement. It quickly followed the Scientific Revolution, which saw blind trust in the how the church defined the nature of the universe, based on the learning of the…

PHILOSOPHICAL ANTHROPOLOGY: HUMAN SENSES, APPETITES AND AFFECTIVITY GROUP 4: MONK & Co. ADVOCATES Jonathan Obwaya 084522 Shelmith Kuria 083671 Gilbert Macharia 083701 Rose Mburu 083688 Patience Maingi 081322 Aziza Mwendwa 082731 Sharon Mutono 083881 Lauriene Maingi 084040 Explain how knowledge of human senses, appetites, and affectivity can be used in Law and other fields that relate to Law. This paper delves into the human senses, our appetites and affectivity, from a…