Sovereign state

The history of warfare went through a drastic shift following the Second World War. Nation states no longer involved themselves in armed conflict with other states of equal or similar status in the global arena. An article written by Dominic Tierney, an associate professor of political science at Swarthmore College, concedes that since the Second World War, “the United States has experienced little except military stalemate and loss—precisely because it’s a superpower in a more peaceful world.”…

book, Two Treatises on Government, both talk extensively about human nature in very different ways. Hobbes argues that human nature is so evil that the the state of nature is really just a perpetual state of war in which people act based on their passions alone which ends up forcing people…

rights and bestow absolute control to a sovereign. Locke thought the social contract was an agreement between the people and a sovereign. He said that the people’s natural rights could never be taken away. Montesquieu held that the government should keep order, liberty, and property of the people. He also believed that the government should not have absolute power but…

The theory of the state of nature has been explored by many scholars (John Locke, Thomas Hobbes, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, and John Rawls), which can help us better understand how gender fits into the different concepts of the state of nature. Mankind was brought into this world in a state of nature (pre-social condition) and had to give up liberties for self-preservation under a ruled society for the sole survival of man, or to better themselves. When describing the beginning of civilization, it’s…

PLSI 373 Understanding California’s Political Landscape California is a Democratic state, and it looks blue. The U.S senators and congressional representatives are both Democrats. There is also a greater number in Democrats in state legislative houses and offices. Barack Obama won 61% of election vote in 2008. He went agains Republican Mitt Romney, 50-40% in November 2011. Differentiating a liberal and a conservative, it appears that the most Californian falls towards conservative.…

In the movie Arrival (2016), Louise Banks, a professor of linguistics is asked by a US Army Colonel to ask the arrived aliens a simple question in their language: “What is your purpose on earth?” From a linguistic point of view, Louise explained the difficulty of expressing the message. She emphasized that the word “your” requires the unknown aliens to have a sense of possession, or ownership. This fact reveals that our understanding of property is all based upon the established social system…

Hobbes wrote it based on fear he was having during the war so his aim was to show the essential need for a powerful authority to avert the evils of war. Hobbes predicts how life would be with the absence of government, a situation that he calls the state of nature. In this life every person would be at war with one another because every person would have a right to everything in the world. These ideas were based on how Hobbes saw the mechanics of the universe and…

twenty-five years, with the assumptions of an increase of distrust in the government, the military will be affected without a doubt. The United States government is in charge of the military and gives them their orders. The military would most likely be affected by the decrease in enrolment, as it already is. In February of 2014, it was announced by the United States Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel that “…the Obama administration would work to shrink the US Army to its smallest size since…

Thomas Hobbes’ laws of nature are a set of laws that would keep humanity from falling into the state of nature. This is a state of the world where we are in a constant state of war. The laws of nature are “articles of peace” that, if everyone or most people abided by, would keep the peace for all people interested in their self-preservation. Hobbes provides a set of nineteen laws which are “a rule of reason by which we are forbidden to do anything destructive to our life, ” (Chapter 15, page 68)…

Unlike Hobbes, Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s philosophies on human nature and the state of nature can be compared easily to those of Locke. In Rousseau’s state of nature, he believed than man is born inherently good; it was the invention of private property, in his perspective, that ruined the state of nature. He thought that once man could claim something other than his own self, then the right to preservation would be extended to his property. It was this that led Rousseau to conclude that property…