Thirty Tyrants

During the nineteenth century, many novelists and poets published literary pieces that disparaged Southern chattel slavery. Artists and intellectuals from disparate economic, societal, and educational backgrounds wrote of the destructive, dehumanizing, and unethical nature of slavery in the southern states. Frederick Douglass and Lydia Sigourney were advocates for the abolition of slavery, but had different views about how the country should go about dismantling the oppressive system. The social…

was about the death of Prince Louis Ferdinand, or even suggest that is was the death of those who supported heroics! Beethoven’s Symphony No. 3 in E flat Major second movement is a funeral march. He wrote the symphony in 1804 when he was in his thirties. As mentioned it is a funeral march. However the question one might wonder is, who is it…

Crito, he refuses to take help to escape, and talks about importance of obeying the laws. I do not think that Socrates is teaching his followers to become rulers, but rather makes them think and make their own conclusions. In the time of the 'Thirty Tyrants ', the regime very similar to other cities in Greece, Socrates also does not obey their orders, thus showing us his view on conservative political…

The modern idea of slavery is that of a racially based enslavement. The slavery of the United States in the 19th century was based upon the belief that blacks were inferior to whites. This white supremacy provided a justification to the slave industry. The beliefs that defended enslavement were not always this way. In Ancient Greece, the philosopher Aristotle viewed the institution of slavery through a different justification. Aristotle viewed slavery as a fulfillment of natural order and…

Socratic irony has puzzled philosophical inquirers ever since the publication of Plato’s dialogues. Unlike the writings of Aristotle or Epicurus, the dramatic nature of Plato’s dialogues leaves some uncertainty as to whether Socrates truly means what he says. Even the most casual reader cannot help but smile while Socrates admires the knowledge of a seemingly unintelligent interlocutor. For the purposes of this essay, irony is defined as when a character says or acts knowingly in a way that is…

political upheaval, and uncertainty, revolutionary thinkers often emerge to question how rulers can be effective, and what responsibilities they have to the people they rule. Socrates, who fought in the Peloponnesian war and lived during the thirty Tyrants period questioned authority. He challenged societal norms; and tried to change the values of the public. Machiavelli, lived during the fragmented 15th century Renaissance period, wanted to change and reconstruct political organization, and he…

children. All of the children 's possessions were taken away from them the moment they move into the house. The children had to share their clothing and the few possessions they were allowed to keep. Mrs.Moss ran the household with fear. She was a tyrant over the children in the home. her husband sat by not caring what she did or what the children did. Mrs. moss had a short temper which lead her to be abusive towards the children. ashley talks about times she was punished by Mrs.Moss. After a…

Annalise Hack 26 March 2024 History 2301 Short Paper #1 Following the Mexican Revolution, disarray and social unrest spread far and wide across Mexico's people and their government, raising tensions among opposing political parties and the people of the border circling Rio Grande. Thesis: An in-depth analysis of the South Texas uprising of 1915, reviewed from the articles of James Sandos and Harold Weiss, details the Plan of San Diego as a revolutionary effort of shared economic and interracial…

When Wilcolmb E. Washburn formulated his thesis regarding Bacon’s Rebellion in The Governor and the Rebel: A History of Bacon’s Rebellion in Virginia, he did so as a direct response to and criticism of the widely accepted views held on the subject by most historians for the century prior. These views were epitomized in Torchbearer of the Revolution: The Story of Bacon’s Rebellion and Its Leader, written by Thomas Jefferson Wertenbaker, which lauded Nathaniel Bacon’s rebellion as a precursor to…

Kant’s conception of duty, as focused on in the ground work Metaphysics of Morals, enlightens us about the morality of the black lives matter movement. However, the concept of duty can be abstract based on apriori ideas. So we need to follow Kant, by creating a maxim and testing that maxim in the context of the categorical empirical. Racial profiling by law enforcement Nationwide is wrong and our maxim must guard against such immorality. Therefore, to uphold the universal human rights,…