Philosophy And Politics Essays and Term Papers
Introduction To Public Choice Theory"Everybody's business is nobody's business." Russell Hardin, Collective Choice, 1982.
The social phenomena discussed in this series of essays all center around the problem of individuals in groups faced with the choice of doing what is best for themselves or what is best for the group. Instances ...
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Confucianism, Daoism And LegalAmidst the chaos of political instability and constant warring of the Zhou era, arose many intellectual thinkers that brought such profound impact in the field of politics, religion and philosophy. Even to the day, their influence can be espied in the many matters of China. Confucianism became ...
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The Art Of ReasoningWe think that we are all logical creatures, that we can attain truth by our
logical reasoning, but historically, this has not been the case. Every
scientific advance somehow “exemplifies the defective state of the art of
reasoning of the time it was written.” (pg.62)
Thus, we are not perfectly ...
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The Life Of Mao ZedongDressed in the drab military uniform that symbolized the
revolutionary government of Communist China, Mao Zedong's body still looked
powerful, like an giant rock in a gushing river. An enormous red flag
draped his coffin, like a red sail unfurled on a Chinese junk, illustrating
the dualism of ...
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Machiavelli And PlatoNiccolio Machiavelli (Born May 3rd, 1469 – 1527 Florence, Italy.) His writings have been the source of dispute amongst scholars due to the ambiguity of his analogy of the ‘Nature of Politics” and the implication of morality. The Prince, has been criticised due to it’s ...
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Dante’s Influence On Italian CultureDante Alighieri was a very well known and influential poet in early literature. “He was not only a poet, he was also a philosophical thinker, an active politician, and a religious visionary” (Holmes 1). Dante was born in Florence in 1265, into the Guelph political party, one of the two main ...
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SocratesTHE LIFE AND DEATH OF
Philosophy was both serious and dangerous, chose to ignore both. Ignoring the first made him one of the most engaging of all philosophers, ignoring the second was to cost him his life. He was born in a middle class home in Athens, in 470 BCE. His parents were Phaenarete and ...
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Womens Writing The Powe And ThWomen’s Writing: The Power and the Passion
"Don't compromise yourself. You are all you've got."
Janis Joplin
In the last thirty years we have seen a real emergence, divergence and development of feminist writing. Like any writing we care to label or group together there are elements that ...
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Dante Alighieri 2Dante’s Influence on Italian Culture
Dante Alighieri was a very well known and influential poet in early literature. “He was not only a poet, he was also a philosophical thinker, an active politician, and a religious visionary” (Holmes 1). Dante was born in Florence in 1265, ...
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SocratesTHE LIFE AND DEATH OF
Philosophy was both serious and dangerous, chose to ignore both. Ignoring the first made him one of the most engaging of all philosophers, ignoring the second was to cost him his life. He was born in a middle class home in Athens, in 470 BCE. His parents were Phaenarete and ...
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HofstadterWORKS of philosophy can last for millennia, novels for centuries. Works of history, if they're really good, survive maybe a generation. But Richard 's The American Political Tradition: And the Men Who Made It is now celebrating its fiftieth year in print and remains a solid backlist seller. High ...
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Economic Effects On SoveriegntEconomic Effects on Sovereignty
Some commentators claim that in the modern world, medium-sized economies do not have economic sovereignty any more. Thus it is necessary to form large economic and trading blocks such as the EU in order to recover some economic sovereignty. There is some truth in ...
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The End of HistoryIN WATCHING the flow of events over the past decade or so, it is hard to avoid the feeling that something very fundamental has happened in world history. The past year has seen a flood of articles commemorating the end of the Cold War, and the fact that "peace" seems to be breaking out in many ...
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Comparing the M-16 and AK-47The great military debate that has existed for decades attributes to which firearm has the better rifle platform, Eugene Stoner’s M-16 or Mikhail Kalishnikov’s AK-47? Both are used extensively by police and military forces around the world. These two weapons platforms have been going head to head ...
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Mimetology in Aristotle, Horace, and LonginusI, no. 1 (June 1995)
Sacred Ambivalence: Mimetology in Aristotle, Horace, and Longinus
Matthew Schneider
Department of English
Chapman University
Orange CA 92666
schneide@nexus.chapman.edu
Almost from its very beginnings mimetology has looked to ancient Greece for its proof texts. For both ...
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Fortune And Freewill In Machiavelli's The PrinceMachiavelli examines the complex relationship between fortune and freewill in his treatise on politics and political philosophy, The Prince. The author does not ignore the role that fortune and opportunity play in the realm of politics, for many of the famous and infamous leaders Machiavelli ...
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Ayn Rand's "The Fountainhead"Imagine power as a form of free flowing energy, a source found within every one
and for each individual. Assume that to gain power, one has to tap this
resevoir of immense proportions and relish upon the rich harvest to their hearts
desires. Consequently, when there is such a dealing of ...
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Platowas born to an aristocratic family in Athens, Greece. When he was a child his
father, Ariston, who was believed to be descended from the early kings of Athens died, and his
mother, Perictione married Pyrilampes. As a young man was always interested in political
leadership and eventually became ...
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Enlightenment 2Why is the Enlightenment a Significant Event?
It was an intellectual movement in thinking, which moved society's thinking away from religious thinking, dominated by the Church, to rational thought dominated by science
The Enlightenment (or 'Age of Reason') is a term used to describe the ...
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