Mary Wollstonecraft (1759-1798) Mary Wollstonecraft provided analysis of the condition of women in modern society‚ through a moral and political theory. Her reflections on the status of females were part of an attempt to have a comprehensive understanding of human relations within a civilization characterized by greed. She first wrote about the education of daughters‚ and then wrote about politics‚ history‚ philosophy‚ translations‚ and novels‚ and travel accounts. Her famous book is Vindication
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How did ideas of Locke’s Social Contract influence the Declaration of Independence? John Locke’s ideas influenced the writing of the Declaration of Independence by the discussion of equal rights‚ purpose of the government‚ and what the people should do to an abusive government. Both in the Declaration of Independence and in the Social Contract John Locke‚ they list that men should have equal rights. Also they both state the purpose of having a government. Lastly‚ they say what the people should
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Montaignes view of human nature versus modern civiliziation is human nature these days puts a burden on modern civilization. He feels like society and or human nature supresses humans right to do what they wanna do and forces them to confrom to the ideals of society and doesn’s allow them to think how they wanna think or do what they wanna do because they feel like they are tied down and cant become free. He uses the concepts of barbarism‚ wildness‚ and blindness to make his view clear in a couple
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John Locke and the Unequal Distribution of Wealth 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
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If all resources and the land from which they are extrapolated from are a common property of mankind‚ how does one obtain private property? This is a question that John Locke‚ a highly influential philosopher theorized about. Locke’s stance on property seems relatively simple‚ every man has the right to their own labor. The labor put into a commodity or enclosure that originally resides on common ground makes it their own. According to Locke‚ nature should be used productively because God wanted
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Do rights come from God‚ nature‚ or humans? (Rawls) Problem the philosopher addresses: - Rawls faced a problem on how to stabilize the inverted pyramid in which the leaders are viewed as the servants of the people - Social contract tradition also faced difficulty with the identification of some people living in a state of nature and other people living in a state of civilization People living in a state of civilization regarded themselves
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8. The Central Questions of Philosophy Political Philosophy 7/8/2013 What is Philosophy? The Central Questions of Philosophy – Political Philosophy • Value – Ethics (Good‚ Evil‚ Right‚ Wrong‚ Justice) • Political Philosophy – Aesthetics (Beauty) • Reality – Metaphysics (Cosmology‚ Ontology) • Knowledge – Epistemology (Theory of Knowledge) PHI 7100 History of Philosophy: The Classical Philosophers ©2013 Richard Legum – all rights reserved 1 What is Philosophy? Political Philosophy
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Jean Claude Colin Jean Claude Colin was a Marist missionary who brought Christ into the lives of many with his work. He was born in 1790 in St. Bonnet le-Troncy. Jean Claude’s initial upbringing was very suitable. When his mother gave birth to him he was the eighth child of a large loving family. Colin’s parents owned a piece of land which they farmed during the warm months. During winter they made ends meet by weaving. All was well at the beginning of Colin’s life‚ especially when taking
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ROBERT DARNTON’S ASSIGNMENT 1. What does Darnton make of a police inspector’s interest in Enlightenment philosophers? Robert Darnton’s book deals with the Enlightenment France and the particular process of historiography‚ in his search to find out the way French lived in the 18th century. He takes particular incidents and primary documents in French history and exercises them duly to place them in the deeper themes of how the French people lived their lives. However‚ his book also concentrates
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At first sight‚ Locke’s The Second Treatise of Government‚ seemed quite similar to Hobbes’s Leviathan. They both believed that a state of nature is a state that exist without government. They believe that men are created equal in this state‚ however Hobbes argues that because of self-preservation‚ man possessed the desire to control over other man. Locke‚ on the other hand‚ reasons with a more peaceful and pleasant place. In Leviathan‚ the state of nature is a public without government. There are
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