What is freedom? Many people‚ both pro-gun and pro-gun control‚ talk about freedom. But nobody ever really stops to define what it is‚ and then apply it to the gun debate. This leads to mischaracterizations‚ particularly from the pro-gun side‚ that any attempt to implement gun control policies is an infringement on freedom. The ultimate end of this argument is to paint those in favor of gun control as "tyrants‚" or bring up the name of Hitler in an attempt to tar those on the other side. In this
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Political Efficacy The Social Contract Jean-Jacques Rousseau Without a belief that political efficacy is strong‚ and each citizen making a personal input into society‚ it is the belief of both Rousseau and myself that “the State is not far from its fall.” Faith and activity in the political system has been replaced with financial activity. Rousseau states that‚ “In a country that is truly free‚ the citizens do everything with their own arms and nothing by means of money; so far from paying
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of nature: men live according to reason and governed by reason - man exists in the state of nature in perfect freedom to do as they want‚ a state of perfect freedom - not necessarily good or bad‚ bit is calm and peaceful - men give up some of their freedom to secure the advantages of civilized socity - men have the right to protect their freedom (killing if necessary) - bound by the laws of nature - contrast with hobbes: everyone has the right
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Freud’s conception of love (via Santas) is that “all love is a derivative of the sexual instincts” with romantic love having the “aim [of] sexual union” (Santas‚ 1988‚ Chapter 6). This definition of love takes sexuality as the central foundation of love‚ inferring that all non-sexual love‚ therefore‚ non-romantic love is an abstraction‚ repression or “sublimation” of natural sexual aim‚ which Freud equates to perversion. Freud then states that this love derives from a form of psychosexual development
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needs to know what they are for and can use them naturally in any circumstances once they are old enough to understand them. Hinman puts it like this: The childhood conception of morality usually comes from the parent‚ and is mostly negative (don’t do that!) and rules and habit formation are central‚ but in the adult conception of morality would come from within and is usually positive‚ this is the kind of person that I would like to become’ and is mainly virtue centred. The idea of Habit is
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dirtiest word in the American political lexicon these days is ‘liberal.’” These words from Roger Cohen‚ a columnist for The New York Times (Cohen)‚ made this statement in the early 2000’s‚ defining liberal as politicians’ worst insult. A word often used today simply to mean easygoing can also be used as an harsh critique. The word liberal can be used for numerous purposes‚ and this flexibility can allow new meanings to develop rapidly. Liberal has gone from meaning free-minded or generous to meaning wasteful
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Liberal Studies Independent Enquriy Study Title: The phenomenon of adolescents shopaholic in Hong Kong and Ways for prevention Introduction A shopaholic means a person is considered to be addicted to shopping. In Hong Kong‚ the ratio of adolescent suffering from shopaholic is keeping high‚ the figure will be shown in the report. The symptoms of shopaholic will appear in the age of adolescent and the early age of adult. As I am a student‚ an adolescent‚ I want to understand more about shopaholic
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Charlene Gennitti Harley Acres Famous Artist paper 2 March 2016 Henri Rousseau Henri Rousseau‚ a well-known artist‚ was born May 21 1844 in Laval‚ France into a “family of a plumber” (). Died September 2 1910 Before he becoming an artist he served in the army and afterwards worked with the Paris Customs Office. When in the army‚ painting was his hobby on his off time. In 1893‚ when he retired‚ he focused on becoming a painter. He became very known for his jungle paintings in which he made 25 of them
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In What is Freedom Hannah Arendt argues that freedom is related to “the political realm” rather than “the inner domain”. Arendt points out in the opening of her essay the need to “eliminate the greatest and mist dangerous difficulty‚ namely‚ that thought itself‚ in its theoretical as will as its pre-theoretical form‚ makes freedom disappear – quite apart from the fact that it must appear strange indeed that the faculty of the will whose essential activity consists in dictate and command should be
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to compare and contrast the liberal and radical approaches to social change. Accompanied by practical examples‚ I will state and re-enforce the theoretical approach that plausibly explains the prevailing circumstances in Zambia. This essay will begin by defining briefly what the liberal and radical approaches are; also it will explain what is understood by the term social change. It is also necessary to point out that I have taken a stand on agreeing that the liberal approach takes a crediblestance
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