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    John Locke was an English doctor, politician, and philosopher who is widely considered the father of the enlightenment. His ideas of natural rights and a direct constitutional democracy served as a template for many countries’ governments, including our own. In Locke’s ideal system, the government is put in place by the people. It stresses the importance of limiting the government’s power while also ensuring that the government protects the rights of its citizens. Locke’s system is the most…

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    for others. Because of the law of nature, individuals benefit from the treatment that others give to them that are just and right formed under the guidelines set by Hobbes. Hobbes states that “the mutual transferring of a right is what men call a contract” (61). An example given by Hobbes is when individuals participate in a voluntary act. A voluntary act is when an individual willingly, with no cost, helps another person who needs or wants to be helped. This benefits the person who is being…

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    Cube is a science fiction film that depicts the imprisonment of seven people, all of whom are complete strangers, in a labyrinth filled with different traps that are designed to kill the members of the newly formed group. In order to survive, the strangers must move room to room, all while avoiding traps, to try and find the exit of the labyrinth they have been imprisoned in. The situation that the seven strangers find themselves in proves to be an interesting case study for philosophers. Cube…

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    criticized those who, “through sin, lived their lives in vicious self-indulgence” as living contrary to the “laws of reason” for they would be punished for not fulfilling God’s divine plan to enrich the Earth (Dunn 254). Yet, Thomas Dunn writes, “social inequality became a target only when it entrenched upon” the abilities of individuals to pursue labor for the common good (Dunn 250). When, for example, the “exploiter” of a market leads “another man to starve,” he had no more right to do so than…

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    1. Burke believed that the revolution in France had only negative results, such as the destruction of virtues and chaos in the state. Based on the principles of Kant, can Burke be considered as an enlightened or does he have limited views about this situation? 2. Burke argues that the desire to update something on the government board is the goal of an egotistical person, since in his opinion the government and privileges should be maintained and transferred in the same way as they were received…

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    The author focuses on the term frame which is a mental structure that develops our perception of the world and reframing is a social change. The strict father frame focuses on a promise of the threat or reward from an authoritarian figure. On the other hand, the nurturing parent frame is based on the human’s equity, restitution and justness (Lakoff 3). Both terms are connected…

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    Expanding upon this idea of what contractualism is from Locke’s point of view, we can see that Locke views society as a whole, as good. He sees people as opting in on their own, and says all humans have the same capacity to think.So, if everyone is opting in for their own good, and well being, there must be a benefit there. The perceived benefits of opting in to this promise are things like safety, sustenance, a pursuit of happiness, the feeling of being equal. No man is above another in the…

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    These two quotes present two opposing views about human nature. Describe the differences in the two views. How is it that the framers balanced these two opposing thoughts – or did they? To me there is not much difference between Thomas Jefferson, in a letter to Edward views about human nature and Alexander Hamilton in the Federalist Papers, Section 6, 1788.They were concerned about the dangers of disagreements between each State in America if each state had control it would not work. Because…

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    Why do humans tend not to think about the future and the preservation of our natural resources for the future generations? During the 17th century two philosophers John locke, and Thomas Hobbes were at war pertaining to their theories of man. John locke, believed that man is always good, that by state of nature men mostly keep their promises and honored their obligations. Also, men could manifest peace and we don’t have to go to war that we can refrain ourselves from being selfish and hurting…

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