Social contract

Thomas Hobbes and John Locke were both political theorists that theorized the way a political society should be. Hobbes was the precursor of modern totalitarianism, and Locke was the precursor for classical liberalism. While both theorists shared similar views on the state of nature, they also had disagreements of others. Hobbes had a negative conception of the state of nature, as it represents a state of permanent war. For Locke, the state of nature does not necessarily mean a state of war like…

During the point of time when stories were at the beginning of their creation the only means of communicating and transmitting knowledge amongst a world without writing was with human speech. Without the knowledge of writing, the most effective way to preserve the needed details of a story was to create them by using poetry. Taking long narrative poems such as “Beowulf”, “The Odyssey”, and “The Iliad” as examples, one can usually find a hero who has absorbed himself in some sort of action. The…

Creon’s definition of a good leader is someone who has the power to rule alone, over all people. For example, in the midst of Creon's insightful speech about the jurisdiction of Antigone, he questions his son, Haemon, “if I permit my own family to rebel, how [will] I earn the world’s obedience?” (Sophocles Scene 3 ll. 30-1 emphasis added). Creon must start with his own family’s obedience before he moves on to earn the world’s obedience. If the people most proximate to Creon reverence and follow…

Liberalism, is the want for your own self right and have the freedom to make your own choice by no persuasion of others. Liberalism was brought into light by John Locke who believed that individuals should have the right to choose what they wanted to do as long as they did not hurt anyone else. With this they should not be forced by others including the government or “The Crown”. Liberalism rose during the Industrial Revolution. Locke believed that by nature, men, were all free, equal, and…

Locke’s Argument on Private Property and the Justification for it First Locke states that “it is very clear that God…has given the earth to the children of men”(2ndtreatise), meaning that the earth was given to humanity as a whole so the issue that Locke tried to explain is his theory on how man can come to acquire individual private property. At a basic level Locke wants to argue that individuals can acquire full property rights over moveable and non-moveable parts of the earth in a state of…

In the novel Lord of the flies by William Golding takes place on an island, the weather on island was sunny and hot. The boys at first where just eating fruit and they eventually started hunting pigs for food. The boys were all healthy after the plane crash and continued to all stay healthy. The plane has no leftover wreckage after the plane crash they had no site or sign of civilization on the island. When the boys first landed on the island their first instincts were to form a group and elect…

The reason could have lied on the different writing times, and the different interpretions of human nature. Carr argues that Man is an Aristotelian political animal (Carr 2001, 95) whom live in the social context. The affiliation with groups, or political communities ensures that Man’s more anti-social instincts are being tamed and group norms regulate the relations among members. These kinds of relations are mostly peaceful and normally follow a commonly shared morality (Schuett 2010, 39); but…

Ashli Trammell PSR#4 RE-WRITE John Stuart Mill was a philosopher that wanted to justify the freedom of an individual under state control. He wanted to make a contribution to the progress of human individuality and freedom. Mill believed that people had no control over their own political power. The people had all the power once their will progressed and the majority had all the power. But the people made sure that majority would never abuse their power again. Mill was able to help the people…

The eminent philosopher Thomas Hobbes introduces his interpretation of the state of nature as a place of misery where no law is present, therefore making the citizens ruthless. Man in his state of nature lives in constant fear of death. “The passions that include men to peace are: fear of death; desire of such things as are necessary to commodious living; and hope by their industry to obtain them” (Hobbes 185). People are free to oppress others by claiming what is not theirs, all in the name of…

Paine makes a strong case here against Edmund Burke’s claim that society is a contract between the living, the dead, and those not yet born. It is somewhat difficult to argue “that a certain body of men, who existed a hundred years ago made a law, and that there does not now exist … nor ever will, nor ever can, a power to alter it (Paine, 439).” The conditions under which that law was created may not be the same conditions which the generation this law has been imposed upon are living under. He…