Teaching or learning ethics in a university setting carries with it the potential of using theories of old to try and cover topics in today’s business environment. While I will agree that this can be accomplished successfully, in many cases the theories are outdated in this global world of ours. To that end, I will ...
John Locke, in the Second Treatise of Government, and Jean-Jacques Rousseau, in On the Origin of Inequality, address the concept of human rights in relation to the establishment and acquisition of private property. Locke takes an almost idealist approach on the matter, arguing that human rights are bolstered by private property, and even goes as ...
The wait is over. On Sunday, the final episode of Lost aired. The beginning of Lost started off kind of slow, but soon after the excitement began. They continued to show all of the Oceanic passengers crossing paths in the alternate life, the life which shows how the passenger’s lives would have turned out if ...
It seems somehow self-evident that “the state of nature”- or natural laws, are meant as a guide-post to how men should conduct themselves in harmony or opposition to others. Hobbes, in an earlier century, has little hope that men are totally able to find a political solution by themselves. They require a strong leader, a ...
John Locke was an influential philosopher who lived in the 17th century. He has provided many important ideas and bases on which philosophy has evolved over time, one of which was his theory of personal identity. Locke was an empiricist, meaning that he thought all true knowledge came from the senses and human experience. In ...
In the beginning, independence rose to the forefront of philosophical inquiries into the “Natural Rights” of man. The theories of ‘Natural Rights’ came into fruition before Thomas Jefferson authored the ‘Declaration of Independence’. God’s creation of man is viewed by some as the starting point of man’s ‘Natural Rights‘. Not one of us can claim ...
Thomas Hobbes and John Locke have very different views on the government and society in general. Locke seems to content that human beings have the natural ability to work together, and as such a government will eventually not be necessary. Thomas Hobbes opposes this, saying that people in general are not good, and need a ...
‘Lost’ Season 6 Episode 8 ‘Recon’ focuses the twin time track experiences on James ‘Sawyer’ Ford, the amoral con artist with the sordid and sorrowful past who seems to have thrown his lot in with the Locke Monster but maybe not. Spoilers surely follow. The Locke Monster sends Sawyer to the neighboring island, with the ...
Boston is one of the places where history lurks around every corner. When you walk through the city, history is likely to have been made right beneath your feet, patriots and presidents may have treaded there before you. Everywhere you turn, there is a statue of a historic figure or a historic building inviting you ...
Two of the most noted and influential modern political thinkers are John Locke and Karl Marx. John Locke was an english philosopher who was famous for his use of empiricism and his social contract theories. Karl Marx was a German political thinker who was famous for his theories regarding class struggle and is well known ...
