It is for these reasons that all traditions within Anarchism wish to advance human kind through the removal of the state in society. Anarchists agree that there will be a natural order, no authority and a free market. However, there is a clear divide between individualist and collectivist anarchists with regard to the social arrangements and the economy and how it should be run. Anarchists are united in their belief that natural order will arise in a future stateless society. This stems from their Utopian view of human nature which argues that people cannot flourish under a state and will only reach their full potential when they are free from religious authority and power.
How and why have socialists endorsed collectivism? Socialism defines collectivism on the grounds that human beings have all the capacity of human being for collective action. In this way, socialists reject the liberal idea of a self-sufficient and self-contained human creature as well as 'atomised society'. A collective, unified collection of social creatures is capable of overcoming social and economic problems by drawing on the power of the community rather than individual effort. Socialists, therefore, endorsed collectivism to strenghten the idea of fraternity - society is desired to work together while being bounded by sympathy and comradership, that are believed to symbolise the the bonds of common humanity.
Although the conditions of the agreement seemed extremely severe, the allied countries had no sympathy for the Germans. They were forced to pay excessive amounts of money as reparation fees to make up for all the damage and destruction that was caused during the war. 13% of German territory was given away and many important industrial areas were controlled by western allies. This caused a major impact on the economy and had many affects to not only the government, but German citizens as well. Many people became unemployed and were no longer able to support their families.
This further reinforces that we have no choice or influence on our lives and the events that happen, so therefore God will know the ethical decisions we will make as he has already predestined them in our lives. Hard determinism is the teaching that denies humanity has free will and believes that all actions have a prior cause. It removes moral responsibility for our actions. Hard determinists would therefore agree with the statement above, and will believe that God does infact know what ethical decisions we will make as he has already perceived it. This idea links to predestination in the fact that it believes everything in the universe- even human action- has a cause which precedes it.
He means that if the venture needs you to be anyone else but yourself, it will lead to no good. This reveals to me that Thoreau believes strongly in the individual, being yourself, and seeking your own path. This quote is also applicable to modern life because many ventures nowadays require you to conform for some purpose. The second aphorism I remembered is “Our life is frittered away by detail...Simplicity, simplicity.” Thoreau means that our focus and attention to detail now in society and culture do nothing but to waste our lives away needlessly. He believes simplicity is the better choice.
The philosopher Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel and Karl Marx both believed that objective and rational principles governed the historical process. Hegel’s idea is that each of the stages or ideas that have been overcome to reach a “totality” are true. “The totality is the product of that process which preserves all of its “moments” as elements in a structure, rather than as stages or phases”. For Hegel, it was the dialectical clash of opposing ideas that moved history into the next stage. Marx believed Hegel’s view was too abstract and metaphysical in nature and did not address the problems of the real world.
‘’Act in such a way that you treat humanity, whether in your own person or in the person of any other, always at the same time as an end and never merely as a means to an end’’. The third imperative says that we as humans should all live moral lives; we cannot depend on anyone or anything else. "Therefore, every rational being must so act as if he were through his maxim always a legislating member in the universal kingdom of ends." An important strength of Kant’s ethical system is that Kant does not specifically set any deontological rules. Kant talks about the Summon Bonum, ‘’the real object of our will’’, he says that we cannot achieve this without our own morality entering into the equation for making decisions.
If a U.S. universal health care plan were to generate a surplus, our idiot government would then borrow from it and ruin the whole system for everyone. The simple fact is that our government can’t be trusted to handle social programs. (brazen,
Also many of the things that are tested are cosmetics; this just shows how vain and selfish we humans are. Now let's move on to some of the awful things coming from animal testing. I feel that animal testing is definitely giving us information but it is not worth it for all the pain the animals are experiencing. Did you know some of the animals are not even properly sedated? In fact, almost ten per cent aren't and 9 % of the ones who are die.
By removing all control over the methods a worker completes his task there is no requirement for creativity which takes away all individualism and conscious thought from the process. This serves to transform the worker into another machine where only his labour is required but any will and conscious input are not. The detachment offers no fulfilment and takes away what Marx describes as man’s “species being”, stating “estranged labour reverses the relationship so that man ... makes his life activity, his being, a mere means for his existence” (Marx, 1884). The division of labour causes the worker to be alienated from