Political philosophy

Education in Democracy. Abraham Lincoln said “Democracy is of the people for the people by the people”. It is perhaps the only form of government which gives power to a common man. There are several countries which have strived and achieved democracy because it is an impartial, transparent and effective form of government. Bhutan itself under the wise leadership of his majesty the 4thDrukGyalpo embraced democracy in 2008. The first goal in education for democracy is the full, rounded, and…

to be a gentleman. According to him, being an ideal Renaissance man demanded total, conscious effort needed in mastering many traits, all the while making the ownership of these various characteristics seem uncontrived and natural. Because the political climate shifted toward the secular and away from the dominant influence of the Church, the ideals of manhood were also changing; the knight in shining armor of the medieval world was no longer the ideal. As a result, all the light did not just…

most common understanding of cosmopolitanism is the “idea that all human beings, regardless of their political affiliation, are (or can and should be) citizens in a single community” (Kleingeld & Brown, 2002). There are a variety of outlooks on cosmopolitanism that relate to politics, culture, moral standards and interactions, however in a general overview, Cosmopolitanism refers to the philosophy that all human beings belong to single community. Jonathan Corpus Ong suggested a notion of a…

perfect freedom in Second Treatise on Government. In other words, Locke believed that each person is born naturally free and should be protected by the state of nature, which he defines as the government. Locke first established that to understand political power one first has to understand the law of nature. Locke believed that all men are equal unless God said contrarily. Locke viewed equality as the foundation of his beliefs and that under…

In 2012, the Supreme Court struck down an Arizona law aimed at illegal immigration. The ruling stated that the state could not supercede federal statutes (Sorenson). This power play between the Court and the state is an example of how federalism did not fulfill the framers’ vision of an institution that protected states’ rights from an ever-growing national government. In forming the Constitution, the framers had designed it to be a solution to unifying the states without taking all their…

The Alt-Right: their past, what they believe, and their future In order to begin, we should start with some historic pretext to help understand where this political group comes from. We must begin in the 1960’s. In America, there was a new movement of conservatism as a reaction to Lyndon Johnson’s great society and the new left in American politics at the time. Some of the features of this ideology are, most notably, anti- semitism, economic liberalism, and other usually far-right ideas. As a…

Individual vs. Society in George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four Nikola Englová 17.6.2016 Nineteen Eighty-Four is a political novel written with the purpose of warning readers in of the dangers of totalitarian government. Individual versus society is one of the main themes in George Orwell’s 1949 dystopian novel, Nineteen Eighty-Four, as well as the principal conflict of the novel. "Orthodoxy means not thinking - not needing to think. Orthodoxy is unconsciousness."[ "Nineteen Eighty-four, by…

The Leviathan of Hobbes proposes a system of supremacy that a supreme or invincible ruler controls. Meanwhile, Locke's Second Treatise of Government presents a government that is dependable or responsible to its people with restrictions on the supremacy or power of the sovereign. Furthermore, according to Hobbes, the "state of nature" is both extremely a cruel setting and oddly formed or structured. Hobbes recognizes that we have natural laws that exist, but he mostly talks about the "state of…

In an excerpt from Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes, he describes his theory about the conditions of a society which has no governing body to control it. When there is no government, we live in a state of nature; a state of total freedom where we can do whatever we want at any time. If there is no government, there are no set laws, and therefore no limits on human actions. There are also no formal consequences for actions that may cause harm to others. You could do anything you want if it will…

Critically review the arguments of Florini and Nussbaum: Nussbaum (2001) explains that the social contract theory dominates the western political philosophy and this theory considers the principles of justice as the result of contract, the people make. People make this contract for mutual benefit and live according to the rule of law..Her main focus is on John Rawls ' work on contractual theory. Nussbaum admits that such theories have some strength in terms of global justice but these theories…