Political radicalism

John Stewart Mill’s On Liberty is essential to understand not only liberty and the limits of government, but also on the limits of the majority and democracy to vitalize each individual to pursue his or her fullest potential. This is invaluable to understand for the best and the most prosperous path for the society to live in. To further explore Mill’s concept of liberty, two supplementary readings that I’ve used are a scholarly published article titled—John Stuart Mill and the “Marketplace of…

Various Responses to Miliband-Poulantzas Debate 4.1. Ernesto Laclau: Methodological and Epistemological Problem Robin Blackburn (2014) described Ernesto Laclau as “the outstanding Argentinean political philosopher ... the author of landmark studies of Marxist theory and of populism as a political category and social movement. ... Used the work of Antonio Gramsci to reject what they saw as the reductionism and teleology of much Marxist theory... a ‘post-Marxist’ and an advocate of ‘radical…

kidnapping, participating in torture and witnessing the killing of certain prisoners.” (116) Now a key thing from this quote is that he did not actually kill the prisoners himself. Bolaño puts in numerous fascists who are just commoners that hold no political power, but still actively embrace and help commit these dreadful actions. This shows Bolaño’s belief that anyone, even commoners can be dangerous when they identify with the right-wing…

their quest to retain power can be threatened even by those who support them. This fear causes the father to push their son away thus fulfilling their fears as the sons’ future actions lead to a destabilization in the political order. This destabilization is show to be a loss of political power as the son either supplants their role or renders the king politically useless. In short, for the father a son is a symbol of the transience of his power. The fear of his child’s potential opposition to…

Student ID: 20388703 Ethics. Dr. Fisher Natural Laws (Hobbes) - Critical Essay #1 “Solitary, poor, nasty, brutish and short” (Hobbes, 78), is how Philosopher Thomas Hobbes would describe his state of nature in his 1651 book, the “The Leviathan”. In Hobbes’ state of nature, also know as the state of war, there consists of no central government. Without this governing body or set of laws, the individuals within this state of nature are competing for scarce resources and resorting to anything as…

Rashel Rafat E1 What is politics? Why should we care about it? What should be the limits to politics? Politics is the science of the way a nation is organized in order to function towards the direction of its goals. Politics is important because it potentially covers the smallest influential aspects of our lives to the largest. However, just as there are limits to everything, there are limits to politics as well. Politics can be divided into three types of relationships, Politics, the…

Sociology 230 Assignment One Theories of Social Justice Social justice is a polysemic term referring to a number of different ideals and practices that depend on the social, political, and economic stance of the view holder. David Miller (1999) defines social justice, in very general terms, as a discussion of "how the good things and bad things in life should be distributed among the members of a human society"(p.1). Contrastingly Sharon Kay Stoll (2011) claims that social justice is "a society…

Rana Begum’s artwork, entitled No.529, is a sculptural wall installation made out of carefully arranged, powder-coated aluminum slats; the left side of each slat is coated in florescent paint. The piece is both organized and chaotic, depending on the angle in which it is viewed. Its sheer size compels the viewer to move, from left to right, across the artwork. The composition and viewer interaction of No.529 are representative of daily life and the decisions people are forced to make. No.529 is…

Sinclair, U. (2002). The jungle (C.V. Eby, Ed., Norton critical ed.). New York: W. W. Norton & Company. (Original work published 1906) This is a review on select meat packing issues raised in The Jungle regarding organized crime, government action/inaction, food and worker safety, and reform in the early 1900s. Packingtown is “a section of southwest Chicago,” comprised of “stockyards, slaughter-houses, factories, and cramped and filthy living quarters” (Sinclair, 1906/2002, p. vii). The Jungle…

Can society advance without all of its people? In John Stuart Mill’s essay “On Liberty”, he makes the argument that we should have the freedom to perform any actions we wish, as long as those are not causing harm to any others. Mill makes a number of justifications for his argument throughout his essay. He understands that in order for society to function, there needs to be certain restrictions on individual’s liberty. He believes society’s control over an individual’s liberty should only be…