Thomas Hutchinson

Later Thomas Browne wrote several books to investigate the Gilbert’s work and used the word “electricity” 1752: Benjamin Franklin conducted his experiment with a kite, a key, and a storm to prove lightning and tiny electric sparks were same. As I mentioned in…

How is man described by Hobbes and Rousseau different in the State of Nature and how does it determine the nature of contract that the two write about? The debate regarding man’s natural state has been at the forefront of political philosophy for hundreds of years now. This is because a lot of philosophers have used their understanding of the natural state of man as a foundation to build their arguments on. Furthermore the understanding of man’s natural state has directly led to the formation…

The goal of a historian is to give an accurate account of an event that took place. Any additions of opinions and personal views could give false information to the reader. One particular excerpt that shifted the change of history is “The Siege of Guanajuato”, an excerpt, written after the year 1810 by, Lucas Alamán, an advocate for conservatism and a son of a wealthy family. Alamán writes a secondary source that details, a description of the leader Miguel Hidalgo, a priest who led siege to the…

The U.S. Foreign Policy are standards the United States follows to interact with foreign countries when dealing with important issues in certain areas, such as: economics and politics in society. Niccolo Machiavelli, the famous statesman from Florence, has definitely been a great influence in the U.S Foreign policy. He was also a well known philosopher and the creator of a timeless masterpiece “The Prince”. “The Prince” was written by Niccolo after he was removed from his post in Florence. His…

Patrick Henry a man, who helped tip the scales in a time of war by a speech simply because the colonies in the eastern side of the North America wanted freedom from British rule. Patrick Henry was American Attorney, planter, father to 16 children, and a husband he was married twice. Borne on May 29th 1736 and died on June 6th 1799 in Brookneal VA. Patrick Henry was 36 when he delivered his speech “Give me liberty or, give me death.” “To the Second Virginia Convention to persuade the Convention…

Jean-Jacques Rousseau is famously known for saying, “Man is born free and everywhere he is in chains.” When Rousseau says this, he is referring to the continuous cycle of man being fully capable of free will and yet he is born into whatever circumstance he finds himself in, whether that be fortunate or unfortunate. Man is therefore either handcuffed by his limits or given a liberty to reach goals he may have, freely. Rousseau’s observance is applicable to man and his relationship to society…

The development of the two-party system that gradually settled into the partisan politics of modern-day United States was entirely unintended by the Founding Fathers. The primary root of the nation itself, the Constitution, does not mention the need nor want for this political system. Moreover, George Washington, the first president of the United States, directly and clearly mentioned his opposition against this then-hypothetical situation of the system in his Farewell Address. A little…

Westward Expansion It was an American responsibility to expand westward. In 1803 president Thomas Jefferson doubled the size of the United States when he bought the territory of Louisiana from the French for $15 million. According to Jefferson, this was crucial for America’s survival, he believed that independence goes together with owning land. Gaining land was important for America’s existence. It was for the good of the country to expand westward. It was both the people’s and the…

Women are not equal to men. Is this what the founding fathers would have us believe? The year is 1776 and in the Declaration of Independence Thomas Jefferson wrote, “all men are created equal.” During this time in America women were not afforded the same rights as men. Women could not vote or participate in political activities. Higher education was not available for women, and a married woman had no rights to property. From the signing of the Declaration of Independence, it would be 72 years…

And because of this, there is no definite way to distinguish between each of the perceptions. Many other philosophers have studied this premise, including John Locke and Thomas Hobbes. Thomas Hobbes believes that the biggest key to distinguishing a dream from waking consciousness is the “absurdity”. “An absence of absurdity in waking life”, describes how one may realize a perception is a dream through a perception that is extremely…