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Latin American and Democracy Transitioning

In fifteen pages this research paper discusses how Latin America has been gradually transitioning to democracy. Eight sources are...

Democracy Supporter John Locke

In six pages this paper discusses how Locke's political philosophies may be regarded as advocacy for democracy in a consideration ...

UK and US Systems of Government

In five pages these famous democracies are examined in a comparative analysis of their similarities and differences and assessed f...

Democratic Spanish King Juan Carlos

In eleven pages this research paper examines how Francisco Franco's dictatorial form of government was replaced in Spain by King J...

Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe, Social and Political Theory

In 9 pages this paper discusses Achebe's novel as it relates to African social and political theory considered in The Dual Mandate...

Advantages of Democratic Opposition Tolerant Electoral Process

In seven pages a democratic opposition tolerant electoral process is examined in terms of its advantages and includes a discussion...

Individual Citizen and the Golden Age of Athens

In six pages this paper discusses Athenian democracy in an assessment of the system with evidence offered by writers Thucydides an...

Comparative Analysis of Democracy Featured in Reflections of the French Revolution by Edmund Burke, Discourse on Origins of Inequality by Jean Jacques Rousseau, and Rights of Man by Thomas Paine

could be held as a slave, recognizing the fact that for people living in democratic societies to have freedom of religion is of ut...

The Complete Colonial Gentleman Cultural Legitimacy in Plantation America by Michal Rozbicki

In eight pages this paper discusses how the ideals of democracy could be expressed by the genteel planters in Virginia as depicted...

Public Policy and Direct Democracy

Political power is realized by representative processes that actually allow for careful prioritization of issues (Clark 434). The...

Political and Economic Philosophical Trends

In six pages this paper examines China, France, Great Britain, and Russia in an overview of each country's trends regarding indivi...

Athenian Democracy and the Lessons It Taught

In seven pages this paper discusses Athenian democracy in terms of concept, the 'Constitution' of Aristotle, the criticisms of Pla...

Thomas Jefferson's Concepts

In fifteen pages this paper examines Jefferson's concepts as they relate to the church and state separation and democracy. Ten so...

Democracy in Russia

The present status of democracy in Russia is considered in nine pages. Nine sources are cited in the bibliography....

The Transformation of Governments into Democracies

4 pages and 5 sources used. This paper provides an overview of the factors that result in the change of a government to a democra...

Human Nature and Democracy

In five pages this research paper considers how democracy is the type of government that most adequately suits human nature in a d...

Happiness and the Existentialism of Friedrich Nietzsche

In five pages this paper examines what conditions the German philosopher established pertaining to the human need for happiness as...

Falsification Theories of Karl Popper

In fifteen pages Karl Popper's 1934 The Logic of Scientific Theory is examined in terms of the proof and falsification theories de...

School Prayer and the Perspectives of Socrates, Henry David Thoreau, and Martin Luther King Jr.

In 5 pages this paper examines the reactions to public school prayer by this trio of social philosophers and what advice each woul...

Debates During the Eighteenth Century Age of Enlightenment

with the fall of man and the origin of sin was metaphorical rather than literal. Not surprisingly, such thinking was considered b...

Comparison of Spinoza and Hume

was that pleasure was immediate gratification but the greater good would be realized by a life lived based on principles as the go...

Fear and Trembling by Soren Kierkegaard

by Kierkegaard as the individual who lives in response to God, no matter what appearances may be. As an example of the Knight of F...

Civil Disobedience and Socrates

In five pages this paper examines the justifiability of civil disobedience in a consideration of several philosophers and theori...

Harm Principle of John Stuart Mill

be viewed as a doctrine where the useful is good and the determining consideration of right conduct should be the usefulness of it...

The Views on God, Religion, and Philosophy as Glimpsed by Bonaventure, Aquinas, and Augustine

else can be expected but that creatures (angelic, human, and the rest) are also one as emanating from God. Dont say "creating" si...

British Politics and Constitution According to Hippolyte Taine

In 5 pages this paper examines how the French philosopher perceived the politics and Constitution of Great Britain. There are 7 s...

Controversy and Kudos -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge

One of England's foremost poet and philosopher-critic during the Romantic Movement, Samuel Taylor Coleridge wrote some of the grea...

Enlightenment Philosophical Age

In five pages this paper examines the Age of Enlightenment, such events as the Industrial and French Revolutions, and the impacts ...

Jean Jacques Rousseau and John Locke on Inequality Permissibility

In five pages this report examines the permissibility of social inequality according to philosophers Jean Jacques Rousseau and Joh...

Reason Plus Spirituality Equals Enlightened Theology

Jonathan Edwards succeeded in defining both his physical and spiritual universes through sense and affection, an entirely new conc...