Throughout history wars have been fought mercilessly and without remorse especially in guerilla warfare. In A Long Way Gone, author Ishmael beah, explains in vivid detail his experience during the war and the horrors it came with. Throughout his journey he tends to see the environment around him fall apart. While it may seem hellish and unforgiving nature itself tries to run from the war. Nature itself does not consider war to be natural since it is driven by murder rather than…
While many scholars attempted to theorize war in human history, only few were credited for constructing consistent theories on which people could base and further their understanding of war and warfare. Those include Greek Thucydides, Chinese Sun Tzu, and Indian Kautilya all three from 3-4th century BC; Prussian Carl von Clausewitz and Swiss Antoine-Henry Jomini both from 19th century. All of those prominent theorist had a lot to offer and therefore had great influence on our thinking in war, warfare, and strategy. However, Clausewitz’s theory offers more insight if one carefully and purposely studied the “paradoxical trinity” identified in his…
In Locke’s’ piece, Of the State of Nature Chapter II, he emphasizes the positive views of human nature. Locke supports a no-government form of rule. He believes that man can rise above injustice and keep a fully functioning society without rule or as he puts it they can have “A State of perfect freedom to order their actions, and dispose of their possessions and persons, as they think fit…..” (Locke). If you give man the freedom to make his own decisions and choices he will make the correct ones. Freedom of choice is what is needed to keep a society intact and functioning, individuals in a society need to feel as if they are in charge of their own destiny. The natural rights of life, liberty, property and the pursuit of happiness are backed up by the notion of freedom and choice of…
War is a very controversial topic for many people. Depending on the person’s outlook on the war, it can be depicted as something good or bad. War brings destruction wherever it goes, whether it is on a place or the people, and it ultimately is inevitable. War also protects a country from having further destruction and keeps the people at home safe from any danger. As a person can see in many recordings of war, there are many comparisons and contrasts that are expressed through soldiers, veterans, and civilians. Some comparisons seen in many of the testimonies given by effected people are dehumanization, dislocation, and alienation; but they also have contrasts that can be seen through nationalism, technological advancements, and the coming home for many…
When it comes to State of Nature, Locke writes in his Two Treatises of Government,“...a state of perfect freedom of acting and disposing of their own possessions and persons as they think fit within the bounds of the law of nature...The natural state is also one of equality in which all power and jurisdiction is reciprocal...” (Lonang Institute; State of Nature §4). Men are freely allowed to do whatever is necessary as long as there are justifications for their actions and to see that everyone around them is just as equal as themselves. Along with his State of Nature is Locke’s belief of Social Contact: “individuals in a state of nature would be bound morally, by the Law of Nature, not to harm each other in their lives or possession… individuals would agree to form a state that would provide a "neutral judge"...an impartial, objective agent of that self-defense, rather than each man acting as his own judge, jury, and executioner...”(Social Contract-Wikipedia). In other terms, man must form a government that they entrust their lives with by giving them support and power, and in return, the government must protect the people from hurting one another by being the objective factor in the justice system. Finally, in the State of Man, Locke claims that “at birth, the mind was a blank slate or “tabula rasa”... born without innate ideas, and that…
“Life, liberty, and property” are the main ideas of Locke’s natural law theory. Locke claims that “The state of nature has a law of nature to govern it, which obliges everyone; and reason, which is that law, teaches all mankind who will but consult it that, being all equal and independent, no one ought to harm one another in his life, health, liberty, or possession…” (SB, 35). According to Locke, in the state of nature, there is a set of universal law which depends on human reason and human nature. Every human being is naturally equal and free under any circumstance. The law educates all human beings to live in one livable community where everyone should treat others equally and peacefully. In addition, no one should destroy or control other human lives such as having them as servants for one business. Every member in the community should join together into one group for their amicable life and in order to maintain a civil society.…
John Locke describes the natural state of people as “a state of perfect freedom of acting and disposing of their own possessions and persons as they think fit within the bounds of the law of nature” and that all persons in this state are created equally, with no man having more power than another. In his belief, the only possible way any one man can ever have more power than the rest is if God unambiguously places him higher than them and endows him with the authority to rule.…
The view Locke had on the state of nature is conceptually different. Locke's view of the state of nature says that humans have limits as to what we should or should not do, but he believed that humans are generally nice to one another, and we will not bother one another. Therefore, in Locke's state of nature, humans are peaceful. Hobbes, however, believes that humans live in a state of war and fight with each other constantly.…
Locke is showing the Natural Law which states that men morally participate in acts, or rights, and they have a right to defend their life from invasion. Also, their freedom is equal for all “without subordination or subjection” (3). For Locke, he believes in the golden rule, “Do unto others as you would have them do unto you” and to seek justice for those who violate it. He says that we all have “a right to punish the transgressors of [the Law of Nature]” (5). Even without a government or an authority, it still permits that all men can act as one and that the state of men can be characterized by tolerance, reason, and…
The state of nature is, according to Locke, a “state of perfect freedom” where humans can order their own “actions, dispose of possessions and persons as they see fit within the bounds of the law of nature, without asking leave of any other man.” In short, to be a slave cannot happen unless you give up your right to your freedom because the natural law states you can do whatever you want. Why would you want to be a slave? Locke, also, states the truth that all men are equal as self-evident. Such equality, however, is problematical. If everyone is equal there isn’t a higher authority that can adjudicate between parties with conflicting interests. That only applied if you were white, male, and Christian. John Locke was firmly not for slavery, however, he does give an exception allowing…
According to John Locke's State of Nature, he believed human being was born to have some certain right. One of them is a state of freedom; he said that all man were naturally in state of perfect freedom to order their action and disposed of their possessions and persons as they thought without any bounds of the law of nature or depending upon the will of any other man. It means that individuals have freedom on life and making decision. Equality is the second state which all man was equal with natural right that no king or other man had power to voice because each individual was born equally with " all the same advantages of nature, and the use of the same faculties." He also argued “Men living according to reason, without a common superior on earth, to judge between them, are property the state of nature."(Two Treaties 2.19). Although all man has freedom to do their wants, they cannot harm or use on other people because of their profits. It is called a state of liberty. Locke defended “the state of nature has a law of nature to govern it, which obliges every one; and reason, which is that law, teaches all mankind who will but consult it, that, being all equal and independent, no…
All Quiet on the Western Front, written in 1929 by Erich Maria Remarque, is superficially the story of one soldiers’ journey in World War 1 and his eventual death. Beneath this, however, Remarque has composed a literary treasure which, above all, seeks to illustrate war as that which is engrained in the nucleus of humanity and through the hugely negative effects of war depicted, seeks to question humanities apparent advancement through its need to engage in such a futile exercise as war. Remarque’s Liberal Humanist ideology is given expression through the correlation between war and nature, thus emphasizing the innate position of war within man, the ultimate paradox contained within an advanced mankind engaging in primitive conflicts and the ironic search for an omniscient being derived from man’s reduction to the barest quest for survival. In addition through the examination of the negativities surrounding the social institutions and hierarchies set up in the absence of god, All Quiet on the Western Front becomes much more than an emotive and well constructed piece of historical realism. In All Quiet on the Western Front, the connections between war and the natural surroundings in which it is fought give rise to the position of war the collective psyche of mankind. The military jargon of the ‚the white puffs of smoke from the tracer bullets‛ is followed by the natural imagery of ‚the sun shining on them‛ in order to emphasize the apparent synchronization between war and nature. The colour imagery of white of the bullets and yellow of the sun, being light colours, connote the harmonious relationship between nature and war. Through the proximity of phrases describing both war and nature in an endearing fashion we are led to conclude that war and nature, or that which is primitive, are fundamentally linked. The gaian imagery ‚Earth, with your ridges and holes and hollows into which a man can throw himself , where a man can hide‛ is ironic as it takes a man-made…
John Locke means that freedom we do have have but how do we use it. He also says “there is nothing more evident, than the creators of the same species and rank.”All and all, john locke's main idea was men had freedom and it was up to then how they were gonna use their freedom.…
It is stated by John Locke that in the state of nature no man may take more then he can consume. " make use of any advantage of life before it spoils whatever is beyond this is more than his share and belongs to others. Nothing was made by God for man to spoil or destroy. (Locke 14)" Locke then goes on to say, "God gave the world to man for their benefit and the greatest conveniences of life they were capable to draw from it, it cannot be supposed he meant it should always remain common and uncultivated. He gave it to the use of the industrious and rational- and labor was to be his title (Lock 15)"…
War has always been and will continue to be a life altering event for the people of its time. While only the soldiers may be at battle, the world continues to be at war, and as a result, people change. It is greatly debated how and in what mannerisms does war force people to adapt. In Timothy Findley’s, The Wars, there are several examples of how humans adjust to accommodate the unfamiliar effects of war. Often, what is unfamiliar is unknown, and what is unknown can be chaotic. Keeping that in mind, it is without a doubt that war changes people by creating an environment of chaos. Through the effects of confusion, corruption of individuals, and destruction of societies’ standard structure, it will be proven that war changes people by catalyzing a chaotic atmosphere.…