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Question: What problem does Socrates point out with Polemarchus’ claim that justice is doing good to your friends and harm to your enemies? Answer: Socrates points out that our judgment concerning friends and enemies isn't foolproof, and that taking this stance leads us to harm the good and help the bad. Unless we choose our friends according to their virtues and our enemies based upon evil deeds, justice cannot work in this context. Everyone has less than perfect friends, as well as having…

Silencing opinion is wrong because it harms mankind. The harm is done whether the opinion silenced is true or false. First, Mill looks at the harm done by silencing an opinion that may well be true (Mill, p.14). Mill says that “to refuse hearing an opinion, because they are sure that it is false, is to assume that their certainty is the same thing as absolute certainty” (Mill, p.15). Here Mill is saying that no one should keep someone from speaking their opinion because they cannot be…

John Locke’s views from the Second Treatise of Government In the Second Treatise of Government, John Locke expressed many of his own views on the relation of the individual to society and more specifically the rights one has in society and the responsibilities these rights come with. First, he explains the right of ontological equality. Each person has the right and ability to execute natural law at will: “the equality of men by nature (Locke 147). In this, while all men possess the right to…

him to get out of the army.He wrote many books and works in his life and some had a profound impact and was written with a lot of thoughts which were to separate government and give people natural rights.His most popular works are or are the “Two Treatises of Government” Which speaks and express these ideas and thoughts. The Enlightenment has been defined in many different ways, but at its broadest was to give philosophical, intellectual and cultural ideas at the 17 and 18 century in which a…

he also believes in the importance of fairness, however, Locke’s idea is focused more on the idea of having consent from the body of people being ruled rather than a government being directed in the way of justice as Locke even states in his Two Treatises of Government that “nothing being able to put him [individual in a community] into subjection to any earthly power, but only his own consent” (Locke 119). Locke’s main idea is that the government is there to work FOR the people and not…

Humanity has come to evolve and prosper with the aid of medicine. Medieval Islamic Medicine, written by Peter E. Pormann and Emilie Savage-Smith, portrays the causes and effects medicine has on a civilization. The authors focused on two main questions when creating their work: how did Islamic medicine develop and evolve during medieval times and what impact did the development of medieval Islamic medicine have on societies? The authors formulated their arguments around the purpose of the…

ninety-five theses protested the sales of indulgences and claimed that the church was teaching false doctrines. Luther wrote to the Archbishop in hopes that he would “look [on this matter] with the eye of fatherly care, and do away entirely with that treatise.” The courage and bravery that Martin Luther showed in his letter to the Archbishop sparked the protestant reformation and gave the people of Europe a hope to break from the Catholic church. The protestant…

the Netherlands which provided him with a sense of solitude and peace that allowed him to focus on his work. He would then move to Sweden after receiving an invitation from Queen Christina. In the Netherlands, he would begin to work on “A little treatise” also known as The World. This would attempt to explain the excessive number of phenomena in the world without scholarly principles of substantial forms and real data, while also using the heliocentric principle of the solar system. He would…

(originating from the yin/yang theory) flow like strokes of a paint-brush. One mustn’t be concerned with being slow and awkward, the key is to not just copy the movements, but to be able to feel the internal energy. Master Wu Yu-hsiang (1850 C.E.) wrote a treatise advising students that to practice tai qi properly, one must drive the internal energy to move the entire body, instead of just copying the tai qi movement and trying to develop the internal energy afterward. He also advised that one…

These rights also came from the values of the Enlightenment. Again, in Locke’s Second Treatise of Civil Government it is stated that the people have the right to remove and replace their rulers along with individual’s rights to life, liberty, and property. Even enlightenment philosophe Voltaire criticized the French monarchy and the Church…