Libertarianism

People power wins occasionally, said Peter Edelman, author of “Poverty in America: Why Can’t We End It.” The citizens of the United States have the power to diminish poverty. Edelman states that the young people, of today’s age, who decide to participate in politics could have a positive effect on the lower class. Those in the lower class have to rise above and speak about their dire money crisis. Edelman makes an excellent point when he says that change has to start from the bottom up.…

From “The Politics of Transhumanism and the Techno-Millennial Imagination, 1626-2030” and “The Human Condition Hurts: We’d Be Fools Not to Better It” by James Hughes, the readers are able to gain an educational and factual perspective on a very theoretical topic. The difference in the implementation of the “hook”, the jargon used, and the context in time the supporting research is based on allows for each reader to gain the knowledge required to look at human bio-technology in a more accepting…

In Milwaukee’s predominately black inner-city neighbourhoods one in 14 renters are evicted every year. Being kicked out of a house into the streets is a very common occurrence for those living in poverty. Eviction is a problem that many are facing in today’s economy that rarely gets evaluated. Matthew Desmond analyzes the problems surrounding eviction in his piece “Eviction and the Reproduction of Urban Poverty”. There are many shocking statistics throughout the piece that provide clear examples…

The upcoming presidential election has been described as a great many things. but among the top are "crazy" and a "bad joke." In fact, there are only 2 words out of the top 20 that have a positive connotation (Fig. 1). Within the article titled "Can Donald Trump turn Texas blue?" which was originally published in one of The Economists online blogs, Democracy in America, a claim is made that, at first glance, seems as obscure as this election cycle: Hillary Clinton and the Democratic Party may be…

Question 1: Who Participates In a free, democratic country where everyone has a voice, few segments of the population have the privilege to understand and participate in the political process. Despite the fact that those who are less fortunate can still participate in changing or putting an end to certain laws or policies through social media and e-Activism. Most of the politicians and governmental officials in office are white older men with substantial amounts of money and have higher levels…

The strongest objection to utilitarianism is that Bentham fails to respect individual rights and liberty, values that are advocated by Libertarian philosophers. Unlike libertarianism, utilitarians only value individuals under the condition that each unit of their happiness is measured collectively with the happiness of everyone else. Dudley and Stephens cannibalised Parker in order to save three lives and bring about the subsequent happiness of their families. Although the overall balance of…

This included a muscular foreign policy, economic libertarianism, moral conservatism, and law-and-order. This came after the President Carter administration, where many Americans were upset with the direction of the country to what they saw as weaker. When President Reagan finished his two terms, there was…

Nishita Aggarwal PGDJ14106 Individualist anarchists and collectivist anarchists have more in common with one another than they have with neoliberalism. Discuss. Anarchist ideology is defined by the central belief that political authority in all its forms, and especially in the form of the state, is both evil and unnecessary because order and social harmony can arise naturally and spontaneously, and do not have to be imposed ‘from above’ through government (Heywood, A. 2007 p 175). During the…

Romanticism was a literary movement that traveled in every country of Europe, the United States, and Latin America that lasted from approximately 1750 to 1870. The Romantic Era reached France around the 18th century. This movement was born in the setting full of revolution and wars that caused tension and doubt on the security of the age of reason. Pessimism overwhelmed the views of hope and optimism. Romanticism was against total order that characterized the idea of Classicism and 18th century…

During this paper I will discuss Kant’s ideas on moral freedom. I will also discuss the defense of these ideas in the face of three critiques by Andrew Ward. I will then conclude with my remarks and thoughts upon the subject matter. Kant was a firm believer in moral freedom. Kant proposed that we have moral freedom through two different worlds. These worlds are the phenomenal world and the noumenal world. The phenomenal world is the world in which we live; this is the world of appearances.…