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Why is society the way it is today? Most will say, “Because of history.” Yes that is correct, but why? Society is the way it is today because of influential beliefs, and philosophers who portrayed and evolved these beliefs. Of these philosophers, the ones being studied are Niccolo Machiavelli, John Locke, and Karl Marx. While Machiavelli believed that the kings and monarchs should have all control over the people, Locke and Marx believed in the opposite. Locke and Marx believed in human reason,…

comes with responsibility to your nation. A citizen's rights are mostly protected if they follow their duties. The American government is run in a very articulate way, starting with the constitution, the English bill of rights, and John Locke’s Two treatises of Constitution. First and foremost, what makes a person a citizen of the United States? A citizen is a person who…

In a time when ideology and convictions were shaped by the church, a new ideology was on the horizon that would begin the revolutionary transformation of the western world into what we know as the renaissance period. This new way of thought was brought about due to certain doctrines of the Catholic church that was viewed as uncanonical and dogmatic. The idealistic movement of Renaissance humanism’s spread throughout first Florence and then western Europe was greatly due to men with common…

the elite and not the poor. The poor didn’t seem to care much for the arts because they gained no satisfaction from it besides being able to view a visually appealing work of art. Machiavelli created a new political sense through his treatise, The Prince. In this treatise, the main focus is being able to stay in…

emphasis on the citizens having the natural rights to change the government if needed. However, the political theories of John Locke and Karl Marx and his colleague Friedrich Engels were vastly different in nature. Locke wrote his most famous work, Two Treatises of Government in 1869 during the Age of Enlightenment in Europe and focused on the social contract between the government and citizens wherein the government is granted its ability to rule through the will and consent of the citizens.…

was the most influential political scientist to pave the way for the American Constitution. His most famous contribution to our formal democracy is an essay entitled ‘Two Treatises of Government.’ The first treatise was an argument against the divine monarchy a controversial issue at the time back in England. The second treatise is about the government role in society, which overall it shall protect its citizen’s rights to life, liberty and property. At last his greatest impact was the idea that…

commentary on Galen’s influence and offers summaries composed in a book of additional input to the material discussed. Also, it appears that the source could have easily been encompassed in a medical encyclopedia. Likewise, the source resembles a treatise in a book. The primary source has two main purposes: to portray the causes of Smallpox and the method of spreading Smallpox. Some factors that contributed to the spread of Smallpox are temperament, diet, and the air in which an individual is…

aqliyya) which does not exist (laysa bi-mawjūdin) in the extra-mental, concrete world. This view, however, was rejected by the fifteenth-century Persian poet and Sufi master in the Akbarian tradition, ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Jāmī (d. 1492) of Herat in his Treatise on Existence. In this short essay, I begin by trying to unpack Suhrawardī’s complicated argument concerning wujūd as a being of reason in his aforementioned work, and then explain how Jāmī argued to the contrary to demonstrate that wujūd…

of Trade and Plantations as well as Secretary to the Lords Proprietor of Carolina, which helped to educate on the idea of international trade and economics. In 1679 in the duration of Shaftesbury's political fortunes, Locke composed the Two Treatises of Government. Under intense fear of being involved in the Rye House Plot Locke fled to the Netherlands. While there he return to his writing, spending a great deal of time re-working the Letter on Toleration. Locke held the title “Father of…

a slave owner to what he earned his nickname to be, “Protector of the Indians.” De Las Casas does not receive the recognition he deserves as being a significant person in history. Through the various accounts mentioned in both of their journals/treatises their differences will be made clear. Christopher…