How did Thucydides affect Hobbes' view of politics and human nature? How was the Roman Republic different from a direct democracy? How can classical ancient political thought help us to improve our understanding of modern democracy? How did Pericles expand Athenians' involvement in their government...
How did Thucydides affect Hobbes' view of politics and human nature? Describe the growth of the first party system in the United States and how these parties came to develop? How did they define themselves, both independently and in opposition to one another? Where did they find themselves in...
Instead, a single dominant ruler was needed, and if everyone did their part, then the community would function smoothly. Hobbes’ theory is unlike Locke and Rousseau’s. He believed that once the people gave power to the government, the people gave up the right to that power. It would ...
The British needed the United States to bail them out of the bloody hell they had created in the Great War, but after that war, they did not intend to allow any American-style republican governments to arise in Europe or Asia, to threaten neither their hegemony in the former, nor their ...
Now he’s working behind the scenes to finish the job. He is the man who ordered the spying on Trump. The framing of Trump. Now he’s the man directing the nonstop government attacks against Trump. Just as he did to Blago.
“I can’t think of anything that excites a greater sense of childlike wonder than to be in a country where you are ignorant of almost everything. Suddenly you are five years old again. You can’t read anything, you have only the most rudimentary sense o
The death penalty is the sentence of death after conviction following due process of law. The death penalty has been sanctioned by major juridical and religious traditions. It was defended during the Renaissance and Reformation by many Enlightenment thinkers such as Hobbes, Locke, and Rousseau. This...
”He continues,“But organisms that have evolved by natural selection always have something to fight about (which doesn’t, of course, mean that they will always fight). [Thomas] Hobbes noted that humans in particular have three reasons for quarrel: gain, safety, and credible deterrence. ...
@Noah. “Jeet did you read Katherine Wirick’s piece on Rorschach as a rape victim?” I was just looking at it before you posted. It’s a very smart piece. This is not meant as a knock on Wirick (who makes a convincing case for how Rorschach should be interpreted) but I’m wary...
How did Platonism and Aristotelianism influence Christian forms of dualism? How did Enlightenment philosophers influence the Founding Fathers of American government? How did Thucydides influence Greece? How did Greek mythology influence Greek culture? How did British philosopher Thomas Hobbes help shape ...