Leviathan

William Golding was a Christian, and this fact is evident throughout the course of his novel Lord of the Flies. The novel centers around the journey of a group of schoolboys that find themselves resulting to savagery after being stranded on a desert island following a plane crash. Golding touches on the Christian aspect by having the boys worship a devil instead of a God, and eventually the devil controls the boys so much that they are unable to foresee a hope for rescue or redemption. In…

Different individuals have different views on the true nature of humans whether it is that individuals are born naturally evil or innocent. A great example of one’s ideas on human nature is William Golding’s novel Lord of the Flies. The author of the novel shares many ideas on human nature with an enlightenment philosopher, Thomas Hobbes. Hobbes idea on human nature correspond with Golding’s ideas through his writing. Hobbes believes that humans are born with a natural evil and will grow corrupt…

According to Girard (1979), violence has tendency to hoard in one place which can lead to “fundamental truth about violence’ is that, ‘if left unappeased, violence will accumulate until it overflows its confines and floods the surrounding area.” With the lack of rule of law, or the presence of the super-ego, which balances both the id and the ego, ‘Man’ will naturally turn to a savage or the id will dominate over the superego. (Wilson, 2014). Rules prevents the domination of the id and…

The way mankind has changed throughout its existence on Earth has always been fasicnating to me. The way that humans interact and live with each other has changed so drastically that it’s mind boggling. I always wonder how we were able to go from cavemen building fires to people living in fancy houses over the course of time. And while it would be easy to point at a history book or timeline and point out the events that have occurred, I know that a simple look at the world’s history won’t…

begins his descent to a primitive state of mind. The story line of Golding’s novel supports the message of Thomas Hobbes, a 1600 philosopher who has written a plethora of published papers based on his idea on human character. In Hobbes’ paper “The Leviathan”, he asserts that all people are inherently evil and the only way to control the malicious side is with absolute power. Hobbes’ philosophy that everyone has a malicious…

The demographics in the post 1965 era was not limited on the number of immigrants that could admitted in the United States from any country in the Western Hemisphere. The Hart-Cellar Act established a ceiling of 120,000 immigrant visas for the Western Hemisphere. The amount of 20,000 immigrants from Mexico was unrealistic in the 1960s. The number of immigrants was dramatic because there was not that many strict laws as now. During the 1960s it was a lot easier to receive a visa, so the amount of…

your money and get results faster then to spend your life earing a honest living. Plato, Hobbes and Hume all agreed the immorality is powered by self-interest. Egoism describes the human nature of being fully self-centered and self-motivated. In Leviathan, Hobbes states…

Many philosophers have contemplated on the freedoms that men should naturally have simply for being human. Among those are the right to self-preserve and the right to equality. Along with these freedoms believed by a handful of philosophers to be God-given rights, complementary government hierarchies are set up for the good of the people and also to protect these freedoms. Without the government systems, humans would spiral into chaos and disorder; this is why it is necessary to have a…

Introduction Sociology is the scientific study of society, including patterns of social relationships, social interaction, and culture (Gordon, 1998 and Collins English Dictionary, 2012). It attempts to explain and understand the behaviours of human beings in the society (Haralambos and Holborn, 2008). More importantly, Sociology is a social science that uses various methods of empirical investigation and critical analysis to develop a body of knowledge about social order, acceptance, and…

Moral standards identifying with good and bad conduct in government covers moral guidelines of behavior either accepting support or objection in light of normal observations in the public arena. Understanding and taking after the standards of government and basic established law in the United States is key in keeping up an ethical government. Each person has their own exceptional point of view on life and along these lines there can be pretty much the same number of types of ethical quality as…