Thomas Hobbes

Anthem is a book written by Ayn Rand, who was a Russian novelist and philosopher, she was born in Russia during the Socialist revolution. This novel was first published in 1937 in England. This book was Rand’s political manifesto of what she experienced in her life in Russia during the revolution. This story is in a society which did not believe in individualism and told everyone what to do. It is about a boy named Equality 7-2521, who wanted to look beyond of what society imposed on him. He…

During the point of time when stories were at the beginning of their creation the only means of communicating and transmitting knowledge amongst a world without writing was with human speech. Without the knowledge of writing, the most effective way to preserve the needed details of a story was to create them by using poetry. Taking long narrative poems such as “Beowulf”, “The Odyssey”, and “The Iliad” as examples, one can usually find a hero who has absorbed himself in some sort of action. The…

Creon’s definition of a good leader is someone who has the power to rule alone, over all people. For example, in the midst of Creon's insightful speech about the jurisdiction of Antigone, he questions his son, Haemon, “if I permit my own family to rebel, how [will] I earn the world’s obedience?” (Sophocles Scene 3 ll. 30-1 emphasis added). Creon must start with his own family’s obedience before he moves on to earn the world’s obedience. If the people most proximate to Creon reverence and follow…

Every choice leads to a different reality and the conglomeration of all one’s choices is what determines his person. Both “Existentialism 101” and “The Guest” promote the philosophy of existentialism whereby it is believed that humans are both cursed and blessed with the ability to make choices and think into the future. Consequently, there are three general principles of existentialism: the first suggests that man should act upon no other than his morality, the second realizes that man is…

Locke’s Argument on Private Property and the Justification for it First Locke states that “it is very clear that God…has given the earth to the children of men”(2ndtreatise), meaning that the earth was given to humanity as a whole so the issue that Locke tried to explain is his theory on how man can come to acquire individual private property. At a basic level Locke wants to argue that individuals can acquire full property rights over moveable and non-moveable parts of the earth in a state of…

Despite the aforementioned agreements between Carr and Morgenthau, these complicated thinkers hold different perspective about the politics which rooted in human nature and that leaded to a discordant tone in the attitudes of the international politics: Carr wished to build a “new utopia”, a realistic world order (Carr 2001, 87); whilst Moegenthau regards the international politics as a tragedy. The reason could have lied on the different writing times, and the different interpretions of human…

Ashli Trammell PSR#4 RE-WRITE John Stuart Mill was a philosopher that wanted to justify the freedom of an individual under state control. He wanted to make a contribution to the progress of human individuality and freedom. Mill believed that people had no control over their own political power. The people had all the power once their will progressed and the majority had all the power. But the people made sure that majority would never abuse their power again. Mill was able to help the people…

Athena Olsen February 5th, 2016 Justifying a State Hobbes argues that to break free from a state of nature, man kind would have to submit themselves to a system of absolute sovereignty. There is a shortage of everything good in the world, pushing people towards pursuits and actions that are hierarchically constructed by nature to become the greatest evil they can be. Which is pronounced as the war of all against all which characterizes the state of nature. Justification, but more so pushing…

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…

There are many conceptions as to how the language we speak impacts our way of thinking. The power of language is undeniable and it is appropriate to distinguish some related theories. Benjamin Lee Whorf, a lecturer at Yale University, reported that Native American languages forced their speakers to understand the reality in an entirely different way so that they would not comprehend some of our basic concepts. Ever since, there is no evidence that any language limits its speakers to think…