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John Rawls, Nozick, and Adam Smith on Business Ethics

actually benefited society. This is no longer true. in todays society, corporations use these and other precepts to pass on their ...

Civil Disobedience in the 1960s

had an impact on both the war protestors and the Civil Rights activists. If every person has an inherent worth, then anything that...

Nietzsche, Kant, and Locke Perspectives on Western Philosophical Causality Since Descartes

In five pages the issue of causality and its nature regarding human existence understanding are examined from the philosophical pe...

King John's Character in King John by William Shakespeare

In ten pages a character analysis of King John as featured in Shakespeare's play of the same name is presented. Six sources are c...

Rawls and Nozick on Equality

traditional theory of the social contract" (Rawls 514). According to Rawls, there should be a "veil of ignorance" in regards to ...

Defining Civilization and Explaining Liberalism and Realism

The geographical aspect has been argued as one that is essential, as all civilizations may be located in a map (Braudel and Mayne,...

Examining the EU through the Realist and Liberalist Perspectives

can be seen in the Xerox Eureka system, this is both innovative and home grown, as well as so good that it has achieved many award...

Political Power and How It Originated

a social contract. In other words, how is it that man is born free but must obey the law? Locke was by no means a theorist who tho...

Experience and Ideas According to John Locke

(Locke: The Origin of Ideas, 2003). Locke, unlike many of his peers, denied that certain knowledge was innate for human...

History of Humanism

many years, but started to become less open during the dark ages. It was at this time that the Christian church took control. The ...

Second Treatise of John Locke

judge himself harshly. However, from this premise, he points out that "absolute monarchs are but men" (Sect. 13, chapter 2) (Locke...

The Radical Nature of the American Revolution

This researech paper offers a comprehensive examination of the ideas that preceded the American Revolution, such as the concepts p...

Detailed Analysis of Plato's Cave Allegory

(Washington State University, 2004). Plato asserts that our perceptions are essentially "shadows" of real objects. In ot...

The Ideas of John Locke

chapter Locke focuses on property, but the entire Treatise is not exactly like that. The Treatise on the other hand, suggests that...

Concepts of Thomas Hobbes and John Locke

is the part of a wise man to believe them no further than right reason makes that which they say appear credible." In other words...

Society and Freedom According to Jean Jacques Rousseau and Karl Marx

There would be less alienation, according to Marx. For Marx, Communism would be equated with freedom, despite the fact that for mo...

Justifying the Iraq War Philosophically

culpable. It is true that many other nations, such as France, opposed the war effort in Iraq. Did the U.S. overstep its bounds? Wh...

Jean Jacques Rousseau and John Locke on America's Problems

fix the problems of the world unless they have no problems of their own. One problem that is quite prevalent in the...

Jean Jacques Rousseau and John Locke on Individual Rights

make it legitimate? That question I think I can answer" (Rousseau, 1762). The philosophers answer is in fact the social contract....

John Locke and Karl Marx on Private Property

It is labor, and thus the laborer "that puts the difference of value on everything." Locke answers the question of whether or not ...

Political Theory, Human Nature, and the Theories of Thomas Paine, John Locke, and Martin Luther

In five pages this paper examines how political theory incorporates human nature concepts articulated by Thomas Paine, John, Locke...

'Pursuit of Happiness' According to John Locke and Jean Jacques Rousseau

the law of property and of inequality" (04.htm). While Locke essentially agreed with Rousseau that in a natural state, humanity l...

Justice and What it Means

In twelve pages this paper examines how the meaning of justice is conveyed in the theories of Plato, John Locke, Friedrich Engels ...

David Hume and John Locke on Perception

In five pages this paper contrasts and compares the perception theories of David Hume and John Locke and exposes flaws in the empi...

Political Authority versus Individual Freedom According to John Locke

In five pages this paper examines these conflicting concepts as represented in Second Treatise of Government by John Locke. There...

Political Philosophies of John Locke and Plato

In six pages this research essay considers the differences that exist in the political philosophies of John Locke and Plato. Four...

Politics and Self Interest

In eight pages this paper examines the concepts of Niccolo Machiavelli, Thomas Hobbes, and John Locke as they relate to politics a...

Innate Knowledge and the Debate Between Nativism and Empiricism

In nine pages the debate between innate or native knowledge as espoused by Kant, Descartes, and Plato is compared with the empiric...

John Locke, Thomas Hobbes, and the Social Contract

In seven pages this paper examines the social contract in concept and incorporates the philosophical views of Thomas Hobbes and Jo...

Divisibility, John Locke, and Thomas Hobbes

In five pages this paper discusses divisibility in a comparative analysis of the philosophies of Thomas Hobbes and John Locke. Fo...