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Negative Liberty and Charles Taylor

wanted (in the unproblematic sense) was not really free, the kind of discrimination which allows us to put conditions on peoples m...

New England Puritans

Company (Einwechter, 1999). This agreement stated the purpose for traveling to the New World, which was basically an affirmation t...

Freedom Concept of J.S. Mill

in his infamous work On Liberty, he relays that idea. Joplins idea is quite a philosophical, intangible view of freedom as it sug...

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...

Freedom and Nonviolence

only an autocratic state (Yancy, 1995). Mandela, of course, first advocated nonviolence as a means of affecting change in...

Critical Views of Geoffrey Chaucer's Wife of Bath

makes the point that although Alisoun has been defined as trying to eliminate authority altogether, in the sense that she seems to...

Relationships, Female Dominance, and 'The Wife of Bath's Prologue and Tale' by Geoffrey Chaucer

looks at the picture of a man killing a lion, and says that if the lion had painted the picture, it would have been the other way ...

Workplace Freedom of Speech

logos of their choice or, for that matter, to raise the occasional question about management priorities," she adds. The pr...

Gods and Oedipus

Each revelation from the Oracle only confirms what Oedipus is beginning to understand: he has been at the mercy of the gods whims ...

White Freedom Rider James Peck's Diary

when we get to Birmingham. The freedom ride is certainly a part of it, but not the whole thing. Birmingham is important right now...

The Yellow Wallpaper and The Story of an Hour and the Female Characters they Include

world that she is a success. This character then stands as a powerful example of women from that era who were given few choices b...

Areopagitica by John Milton

fashion, as they order books burned and prohibited that they "fancied not" (1025). Then, Martin the Fifth instituted the a bull wh...

Economic Freedom and Its Benefits

economic freedom and then quantify them to reflect the degree to which they are present in a given economy or market. The EFI has...

Society and Individual Opportunity

jobs, and education are just some of the areas which are affected by this practice. Given these evidences, alone, it becomes obvio...

Kant's 'Enlightenment' and Freedom of Speech

freedom of speech as well as to be able to use reason publicly in all matters without fear of retribution, is very important. It i...

Contemporary Relevance of the 'Social Contract' of Jean Jacques Rousseau

nonetheless that speaks of how we feel, as Americans, we are free and independent, yet powerfully under the control of our own "so...

Comparing the Philosophies of Friedrich Nietzsche and Karl Marx

in his own personal progress at the cost of everything else. He was wholly supportive of the scientific community during the Enli...

Women and the African Diaspora

practices of their homelands. African Diaspora in the 21st Century Chukwu-Emeka Chikezie (2002) addresses the issues associated w...

What Does the Code of Hammurabi Guarantee?

idea of writing a law down so that all could read it was unusual for civilisation of this time. The was an ability for the law to ...

American Life Duality and the Tradition of John Locke

to living their lives at the mercy of their rulers. The vote for colonial democracy was a vote for the freedoms that are intrinsi...

Connection Between Democratic Freedom and Arts Education

long held beliefs, intellectual theories, and works her way deep into the root causes, in her opinion, of much of the social and r...

Panhandling, Free Speech, and John Stuart Mill

In five pages this essay discusses Mill's essay 'On Liberty' in a consideration of panhandling prohibition ordinances and freedom ...

Civil Society Membership and John Locke's Views Upon Consent, Equality, and Freedom

as the real measuring stick against which all the answers to all the questions could be compared to see if they measured up. Not ...

Freedom, Liberty, and Justice According to Martin Luther King Jr., Cicero, and John Stuart Mill

what the concept of rights truly meant to the populace as a whole, with his general consensus reflecting the respect for and appre...

Hate Speech

white counterparts. It can be argued that the police are decidedly more prejudiced toward some races and class status than they a...

Freedom Quest of Vietnam

earth. It was this antagonistic attitude that only served to fuel Ho Chi Minhs desire to ward off foreign domination and American...

Freedom, Censorship, and the Control of Information

signed this infamous act, and are then going on to make them public as they feel they are in the public interest. The information ...

Poetry, Literature, and Justice and Freedom Themes

the theme that speaks of freedom from the perspective of the freedom of expression. Oscar is a young man who is curious, and intel...

Moral Freedom According to Immanuel Kant and John Stuart Mill

for a time when people often thought of God as the determining factor in their fate. With philosophers like Kant and Mill saying ...

The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne and Freedom

of the Puritan ideal that humans born into the world had a tendency to sin and he went on further to theorize that the human subco...