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Although John Locke was one of the greatest British philosophers, he played a vital role in the religious and political issues that arose. The government during this time was authoritarian, meaning the people of the community were dictated and controlled by royals without having a say. Locke believed that the government’s most important job was solely to govern the people, in way that was beneficial to them. In fact, without the community there would be no government. Locke’s Of Civil Government…

Patriot’s & People’s American Revolution Comparative Essay Howard Zinn and Larry Schweikart with Michael Allen interpret American history in their respective books A People’s History of the United States and A Patriot’s History of the United States. Both books, while going in-depth in the progression of America, differ sometimes greatly in their views and opinions of events in history. Zinn differs with Schweikart and Allen in his interpretation of the American Revolution in that Zinn saw the…

The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire is a six volume set written by Edward Gibbon. The six volumes were written from a Roman point of view between the years 1776 and 1788. Edward Gibbon was an English historian writer and a Member of Parliament. Gibbon’s work is considered to be outdated due to the central idea of this popular work. Throughout the set of books, he uses irony and criticism of organized religion. The thesis of his work is the falling of Rome was caused by embracing…

Freedom is a word that stirs the emotions, and is the rallying cry of every revolution ever. While the term freedom itself has many connotations, in western civilization the most venerated are the free thinkers. I am fortunate to be a freethinker. Like revolutionaries who came before me; I also had to endure hardship before I could doff the chains from my mind. I believe adversity, the suffering and struggles of life are the agents of change and offer an opportunity to transcend a circumstance.…

What was the historical significance of the political work of Hobbes? Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679) was an English philosopher and political writer, best known for his book “Leviathan” (1651), in which he set out his political views on society and how governments should conduct themselves. Hobbes was writing at a very important point in history: England was going through the turmoil of civil war and this was a major influence on Hobbes’ political work. Also, Hobbes was writing just before the…

The Merriam Webster dictionary defines liberty as “the positive enjoyment of various social, political, or economic rights and privileges”. Liberty was said to be an unalienable right to United States citizens in the Declaration of Independence in 1776. Both the American and French revolution had a strong influence on the art of their time. Revolutions inspired patriotic art depicting various interpretations of liberty, including the painting by Delacroix titled Liberty Leading the People and…

The concept of human nature, in a world in which humans claim to believe various theories, differs between different accounts by two intellectual men, Thomas Hobbes and Francis De Waal. According to Hobbes, he views every human being as equal because he believes that every individual, no matter the physical or mental difference, were born with the ability of killing or harming any other individual. According to De Waal, however, he believes the opposite of Hobbes idea of human nature because De…

Long Thai Nov 30 T. Washington and Fredrick Douglass "No problem can be solved from the same level of consciousness that created it", Albert Einstein said. Indeed, T. Washington and Fredrick Douglass are two typical examples about this talk. Even thought they were born in the slavery, all of them had several different ways to achieve their goals. I am going to explore some similarities and differences between T. Washington and Fredrick Douglass in this essay. First of all, their backgrounds are…

Thomas Hobbes and John Locke are both political philosophers that have greatly influenced modern political thought. Both Hobbes and Locke reject the idea of a divine right, leading to both conveying their idea of a “social contract” an agreement between people and government, due to man living in “state of nature.” However, as both philosophers agreed on the existence of the state of “nature” the condition in which humanity resided before there was any form of civil society and a “social…

Hillbilly Elegy, a book written by J. D. Vance, is one of the more recent New York Times bestsellers. The book itself is essentially a memoir of Vance’s (the author’s) life growing up In the Appalachian region of the United Sates. Though it is possible to provide a thorough summary on what this set of memoirs is, it will probably be made easier after it is explained what they aren’t. Despite what the title of the New York Times’ and other sources with the likes of the same title “Review: In…