Industrialization required raw materials and industrialized countries could not always supply all of those raw materials themselves. They therefore turned to other countries, including underdeveloped countries, for raw materials. This created a pattern of every increasing globalization. As globalization produced a world economy in the 18th, 19th, and 20th centuries, local economies around the world ...
Niccolo Machiavelli, a well-known writer of political philosophy, has contributed much that is controversial to modern political thought and political philosophy. His short book, “The Prince,” was designed as a practical guide for royalty. Whereas much prior and subsequent political philosophy has centered around idealism and how government should operate, “The Prince” is most often ...
If nothing else, the pages of history can be accurately summed up as a collection of tales of power, or more precisely, the quest to obtain and retain power. In this, history intersects with political theory when considering the nature of power, who is entitled to hold power and rule over others, and a myriad ...
In 1651, Thomas Hobbes published the book, Leviathan or The Matter, Forme, and Power of a Common Wealth Ecclesiasticall and Civil. Our contemporaries have shortened the title to simply Leviathan. The book gets its name, Leviathan, from the Leviathan, a sea monster or dragon found in the Old Testament. In 1648, a few short years ...
Certainly Plato (c. 428 BCE-c. 348 BCE) and Aristotle (384 BCE-322 BCE) have a great deal in common. They are the two most influential figures in the history of Western thought from the ancient world. They both revered Socrates and his spirit of open-minded inquiry. They both did the bulk of their work in Athens, ...
Thomas Hobbes wrote his flagship piece, Leviathan, in 1651, during the height of the English Civil war. The political turmoil of the time, coupled with the heightened faith in rationality inherent to the Age of Reason, inspired Hobbes to articulate the first of the social-contract-based political philosophies, and to advocate a strong Monarchy with centralized ...
