The people adored him at first, His April Theses kept his Marxist beliefs in check, and he used it in order to rule Russia in a communist manner. The people liked his speeches, he was well spoken and an inspirational speaker especially in his speech of “Peace, Land and Bread” in which he spoke of making Russia for the people. Lenin was precise, and careful with his methods and rules. He never left any chance of fault. By creating the Cheka, his secret police, he kept political parties at bay and kept order through fear.
These actions included, compromising with their own principles and what the Bolsheviks did to deal with the threat of people who opposed them. Lenin could not afford to ignore the tide of popular aspiration that had swept away Kerensky and the Provisional Government, so he gave the workers and peasants what they wanted. Edward Acton said that ‘no Russian government had ever been more responsive to pressure from below or less able to impose its will upon society.’ The Bolsheviks handed out power to the local soviets to manage their own affairs. This shows that the Bolsheviks appeared to have control of Russia, however, in reality they had no real impotence on the day to day running of the country. The Sovnarkom ruled by decree without going to the Soviet for approval.
At any given time in history, however, philosophers and theologians and even politicians have and claimed that they have discovered that the best way to evaluate human actions and establish the most righteous code of conduct. You see, life is far too messy and complicated for there to be anything like a universal morality and an absolutist ethics. I know what you are thinking, “What about the concept of the Golden Rule?” The golden rule is great and all, treating everyone like you would like to be treated. But it disregards moral autonomy and leaves no room for the imposition of justice.In other words, we fucked up. Not just a little bit, but we fucked up big time.
Rulers were drawn to Daoism notions of the ruler who can have great power simply by being himself without instituting anything (McKay 82). Daoism is a sophisticated view of the world, which mediates of the nature of the world. The Dao De Jing was one of the core texts in Daoism and says, “Dao is all that exists and may exist”. Daoists defended private life and wanted rulers to leave them alone. They disregarded everyday concerns, and let their minds go freely (McKay 80).
It is not just this universal egoism, however, which results in this conflict, but rather humans’ insatiable desire for power. Hobbes describes this inclination when he writes “I put for a general inclination of all mankind, a perpetual and restless desire of Power after power, that ceases only in death”. Hobbes defines power as the “present means to obtain some future apparent Good”. This equates power as being the means to achieve a goal or purpose, which seems rational given the forward looking nature of humanity. This definition by itself, however, has no implication on our relationship with others.
At the helm at the mega firm Virgin Group Ltd, Branson has defied conventional management and leadership wisdom. Through all his accomplishments, Branson’s amazing leadership skills cannot be mentioned in a vacuum. There is an interactional relationship between a leader, his or her followers and the situations in which they interact. This paper will analyze Branson as a leader. However, because his leadership success is not mutually exclusive, his followers and the important situations that define his career will be addressed.
They wrote the restrictive forces of the Constitution on something far more predictable, the meaning of freedom. They understood that times would change, and that breakthroughs would come in many forms and on many levels. They therefore constructed the Constitution on one thing that they knew would not change, and that is human nature. So when people say that our constitution is not relevant at all because of its age, most of our rights are declared on it and still is followed today. Therefore, these are rights that can’t be taken away or unalienable, unalienable rights are rights that are unable to be alienated, given up, or transferred to someone else.
The teacher as master wields all the power (knowledge), continually demonstrating their superiority by assuming students are not knowledgeable. The student (slave) ignorantly never realizes his own value to the teacher, instead he readily submits to the belief of his own inferiority. Freire writes, “The teacher presents himself to his students as their necessary opposite; by considering their ignorance absolute, he justifies his own existence” (Freire 6). This style of educating is narrative and lacking interactive concepts. The primary information delivery method is narrative; “His task is to ‘fill’ the students with the contents of his narration” (Freire 2).
Brahma teaches that all things, no matter how unrelated, are part of a bigger picture or purpose, and that material goods are worth nothing when it comes to finding truth. Although both these works are, at a first glance, totally different, they both relate directly to lessons that can be followed in order to reach enlightenment. In the journey for the self, being a free thinker is difficult, especially in this society because of the increased reliance on the system. It is important to always push the boundaries and test the authority of one’s superiors because without the restriction of a higher power, truth cannot be accomplished. McMurphy in One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest shows this kind of attitude in the scene where he wants to switch the schedule so he and the rest of the ward can watch the World Series.
Our freedom to make ethical choices is an illusion. Discuss. This is a hard determinist statement which I do not agree with, hard determinism states that all your choices including ethical and moral choices, are predetermined and you have absolutely no free will to choose to do anything other. Therefore a person would have no responsibility for their actions. In my own opinion this causes many issues which can lead people to do immoral things and commit bad crimes, and be able to justify their actions by stating it was already determined for them to do it.