similarities with Mozi, but they actually have far more in common when it comes to how they believe a government should be run. The ideal state in both Daoist, and Mohist thought operate in such a way that they are highly similar, not so much as explicit structure, but more so in the underlying roots of legitimacy, the basis of laws, and the role of the state to bring order. The foundation of Laozi’s philosophy is that to create order, a ruler cannot become tied up in making moral distinctions…
At the crux of Locke’s Second Treatise on Government is the idea that there is a natural law under which we all fall under, but in order to ensure these freedoms are protected from exploitation we create societies and governments. However, there is some grey area when it comes to determining whether or not a person has given consent to the government, and at what point the governmental system crosses the line in exercising its power and thereby loses its legitimacy and can rightfully be…
" To what extent in the U.S. does the government-federal, state, and local-have the duty to monitor the internet content? I find myself pondering the argument of if it is okay for the government to watch internet activity. In some circumstances I am in favor of the U.S. government-federal, state, and local watching over what we do on the internet. Sometimes it can benefit us when solving crimes such as, the ""Dark web"" or pre-planned murder. For instance, Casey Anthony who researched on…
interested solely in power, pure power” (Orwell 332). In 1984 the Party did many unethical things to keep their power for example, they killed people, manipulated people, lied to people and tortured people. “One combination or another, these three super-states are permanently at war, and have been so for the past twenty-five years. War, [was] no longer the desperate, annihilating struggle that it was in the early decades of the twentieth century. It [was] a warfare of limited aims between…
"U.S. Government v.s. Internet The control the United States government has on many things can be both good or bad, depending on how you look at it. However, in general, I think that the government does not need to be in control of the internet because of the violation of Americans rights, privacy or safety issues, and the questionable things they may do in the name of progress. Maybe in the future there will be a time when regulations will be imposed, but for now I hope that more people can see…
Why the Government Shouldn’t Have Control over the Individual There are various accounts of the government overstepping the boundaries and abusing the power that they hold. The communist leaders of Eastern Europe used terror and fear to control and any to go against their plans were punished, “executed tens of thousands, imprisoned hundreds of thousands” (Brzezinski 25). None were allowed to go against these communist leaders and that is just the beginning of the issue of why the…
In Anarchy, State, and Utopia, Nozick argues that distributive justice in the form of redistributive taxation embodies an unjustifiable extensive state. Nozick’s argument against the redistribution includes arguments concerning the fundamental concept of patterned distribution on which redistributive taxation is built on and the concept of Nozick’s entitlement theory, which distinguishes between end-result and historical justice. In this paper, I will reconstruct Nozick’s argument that…
is not directly in conflict with the other. At face value, A&S contradicts the notion that the United States could unify. In KW, the two theories have a lot more room to work with one another. Although KW’s theory does run into some of the same issues regarding efficiency, because it doesn’t necessarily concern the absolute unification of two or more states, it can examine the results of state interaction well short of the legitimate use of force. With Parent, the entire argument is set up to…
yet contrasting, views on civic virtue and its relationship with political well-being. While Hume articulates that through proper checks and balances liberty and government will be protected from an amoral statesman; to the contrary, Witherspoon states that without a proper moral footing any government is destined to fail. Witherspoon’s assertions are supported by the French philosopher Montesquieu. In contrast, Price makes statements that protect Hume’s declarations from the contrasting…
of the decisions of the government. The role of the government in Machiavelli’s idea was to be a way to keep order of the state. It would be changed and manipulated by the prince for the situation. The prince also had to try to predict problems that could arise in the future, so he uses the government to make laws to prevent this, “It is necessary for him who lays out a state and arranges laws for it to presuppose that all men are evil and that they are always going to act according to the…