Libertarian

Whenever making a tough decision, whether it be in a classroom, with friends, or on a sport team, the saying has always been majority rules. Whatever the largest sum of people want tends to always win. This idea correlates directly with our government today. Majority tyranny is a bigger threat than minority tyranny to American democracy today because the size and power that majority groups obtain make it easier to gain control or possibly overthrow our government. In federalist paper 10, James…

The 17th century philosophical rationalist Baruch Spinoza is famed for his Moral Relativist view in addition to his unique way of defining God and Nature as one. His legacy derives from these ideas, but he was not completely recognized for these ideas until after his death in 1677. Beginning at a young age, Spinoza was exposed to Jewish schooling as he lived with his family who were strict adhering Jews. During his childhood, The Dutch were at war with France and Britain and this caused major…

friendship alone enough to make me always rejoice that I was forced to pass so many years amongst you.”(Aaron15) Sissy is a classic example of a libertarian type of a government. Philosophers such as Locke and Aristotle said that the human race is not egocentric or hateful, but rather it is filled with happiness and love. Dickens however, shows that with a libertarian type of government, one can be taken advantage of. An example of this is Mrs. Bounderby, Bounderby’s mother. She loves her son…

The foundation of libertarian is that every person owns their own body and all relative possessions. Sandel (2007) described libertarianism as the belief that “as proprietors of our own person, each of us has the right to decide what to do with our own bodies and our labor,…

The Detrimental Truth: Trevor Noah Examines the Good and Bad Following Congress’ Gun Control Filibuster by Jason Nawara In following Congress Gun Control Filibuster, Nawara states "the first two bills that set to be voted on are as follows: people on terrorist watch lists are now stopped from buying a gun. Republicans want these people to have 72 hours so the FBI can find probable cause to deny their weapon purchase. The second bill closes a loophole in which gun…

Democratic and Republican Parties each have separate bases that help build the party. The members of each separate base though have characteristics that can predict which party they are apart of. For instance, women and minorities have a higher chance of being apart of the Democratic Party while white men tend to be apart of the Republican Party. From basic information you can predict what party a person is member of. The prediction will not always be right as there are always exceptions to…

Making decisions is a strenuous task. That is why a system called value trade-offs is often used in politics. For instance, in Mother Jones’s recent article “The Trump Deportation Regime Has Begun” we learn about the recent deportation sweeps of immigrants that occurred throughout cities in Southern California. This recent event is a primary example of value trade-offs such as order versus freedom, order versus equality, and freedom versus equality in politics. Order versus freedom is a…

consideration. The philosophers’ interpretations of distributive justice are influenced by their respective beliefs – Rawls’ principles of justice are egalitarian in nature, while Nozick’s entitlement theory is strong in its libertarian sentiments. Although Rawls recognizes…

Ideologies, the science of ideas, were a product of the enlightenment era and pertain to philosophical ideas and beliefs of what “ought to be”. Meaning to this term, coined by Comte de Tracy during the French revolutionary period, has been an ever evolving concept. There are various ideological beliefs that differ on what the most suitable social, political, and economic structures will create the “best” societal outcome. These wide ranges of philosophies may include support for individualistic…

Whether or not we have free will has serious implications about morality, the punishment of criminals, the concepts of heaven and hell, and other related topics. The theory of universal determinism poses a challenge to free will, suggesting that all actions could be predicted. There are three positions on universal determinism: compatibilism and the two main versions of incompatibilism, hard determinism and libertarianism. In this paper, I will discuss these three positions, offering…