form of action. Violence is seen under certain circumstances as the only way to set the scales of justice right again. Violence being instrumental by nature is rational to the extent that it is effective in reaching the end that must justify it‚ (Arendt 1970: 79). At the end of Antigone‚ Creon’s family gets destroyed but this is justified because he cares for his city. Antigone’s act of violence toward Creon
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When Hannah Arendt completed her work The Origins of Totalitarianism‚ she essentially took a historical approach for her analysis. The stories of Nazism and Stalinism exhibited the power of reorienting the mass for political purpose. However‚ her work foreshadowed what happened 15 years later in China -- The Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution. The key elements reappeared and constituted another experiment of pushing the regime to be totalitarian. I argue that the influence of mass and the strategy
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Hobbes and Rousseau and how these portrayals are reflected in their political theories. Thomas Hobbes and Jean-Jacques Rousseau were philosophers of the mid 17th and mid 18th centuries respectively and proposed two political theories - in “Leviathan” (Hobbes‚ 1651)‚ “The Second Discourse” (Rousseau‚ 1755) and the “Social Contract” (Rousseau‚ 1762) - that were very different but that once analysed‚ could be argued to have common characteristics and goals. Both Hobbes and Rousseau based their
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Does Schmitt or does Rousseau describe the current state of American politics most accurately? Carl Schmitt‚ a German political theorist and Jean Jacques Rousseau‚ a French political philosopher‚ both give their views on democracy and its inner workings. Schmitt show great disdain for democracy. He believes it is corrupt and “seems fated [then] to destroy itself…” Rousseau clearly believes in democracy; where the citizens have duties to the nation and enter into a social contract with the sovereign
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ROUSSEAU AS TOTALITARIAN? Rousseau‚ known as “Father of Modern Democratic Theory”‚ was being accused by other people as a “Father of Totalitarianism”. This is one of the contentious issues which attack Rousseau’s social contract; he is seen to be advocating totalitarian solution rather democratic. Others may have only misunderstood the concept of totalitarianism but I tell you there is no clear evidence showing he is in favor of totalitarian. Why‚ then‚ some considered Rousseau as a totalitarian
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sovereign. It would be impossible to define the latter terms without first analyzing Rousseau’s definition of state of nature. This has to do with the fact that none of the terms have relevance without the existence of the state of nature. According to Rousseau‚ the state of nature is when there is no outside force influencing an individual’s decisions. It is here that a person can truly be called an individual. A good example of this definition is when a caveman lives alone and does what he pleases‚ when
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qualities like education or physical strength (Rousseau‚ 262). Women are ill taught by men to believe these social stigmas assigned to them‚ which are obedience‚ chastity to the family‚ and subservience to men‚ their family‚ and society. This view of motherhood is thought to benefit the men‚ where as women will be their pleasing servants as wives‚ their children’s tutor after motherhood‚ and their chaste civil companion. But to this view‚ which Rousseau wrote a chauvinistic book about‚ Wollstonecraft
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Henri Rousseau I would classify Henri Rousseau as a post-impressionist painter who painted in a naïve manner. Different sources classify him into different art periods. Post-impressionism is a period of art that lasted between 1880 and 1910. Impressionism‚ which lasted between 1860 and 1900‚ was the predecessor of Post-Impressionism. In my opinion Impressionism is a reflection to some extent of how society worked during the 19th century. After my research it appears that life in 19th century
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force in the way each of us think in our daily lives. During the time of Rousseau these ideas we just taking off‚ with thinkers like Hobbes and Locke were carrying the idea forward. However‚ what Rousseau provided in his works‚ in particular piece The Social Contract challenged those notions of individualism‚ highlighting holes in reasoning as well as exposing the inherent flaws that lie in a hyper-individualist society. Rousseau sought to counter previous notions of not only primitive man‚ but of the
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The Influence of Kant and Rousseau on the Enlightenment The eighteenth century was a time of rapid change and development in the way people viewed humans and their interaction with others in society. Many countries experience revolution and monarchies were overthrow. People began to question the values that were ingrained in society and governments that ruled them. Two of the biggest philosophers of that time were Immanuel Kant and Jean-Jacques Rousseau‚ who both ignite the overthrow of tradition
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