Government is a reflection on human nature because you have to depend on people and government is after all made of men. The purpose of government is to protect the individual rights of its citizens. The Founders believed in the Constitution more than the Progressives. The Founders viewed the Constitution as the answer to everything, while the Progressives did not. They leaned toward other things to create government.
Basically his only choice is to join Jack’s tribe, or die. This is chaos. Jacks way of leading the group is manipulative and evil. They have no control, or order. He scares them into doing whatever he wants them to do.
He lets us acknowledge that the only priorities of a prince are war, the foundations and the discipline. In his writings, he describes how it’s more important for a prince to be realistic than reasonable; he states, "in order to maintain the state he is often obliged to act against his promise, against charity, against humanity, and against religion" (Jacobus 231). The leader should be strong and feared to have more control over their people. This idea of fear God, my belief, is similarly to idea of fear the leader, as no one is to ever think to question God because he is feared. He understands that a leader should be greatly feared, but not hated nor loved.
As the Green Knight comes to King Arthur’s court, he causes a scene, which then invites everyone to "give a blow and take a blow". Even though this trial appears easy, it still puts Gawain in a conflict and makes him fear his life with the Green Knight. After this, the Green Knight still is not the main enemy whom the hero must overcome in this story. Throughout his quest, Gawain is still challenged against this stereotype and does not always win, as he must face temptation and the qualities that do not live up to a typical hero’s standards. For Shrek, he fights just like a hero would when he approaches the castle with the fire breathing dragon.
He believed that the government had an obligation to protect the citizens natural rights. But that was the only reason that the government existed, and if the people believed that the government was not fulfilling this task, they could overthrow him and find someone new. John Locke believed that good and evil, reward and punishment, are the only motives to a rational human being. These are the guidelines by which all
At this point in the story Jack is not sufficiently prepared to kill, but he is approaching the point at which he can inflict mortal violence upon another, whether a pig or a person. Ralph cannily realizes this trait when he reminds Jack that the most important thing that the boys must do is to build a shelter. He implicitly tells Jack that his obsession with hunting does not help the boys' chances of survival. Golding elaborates on Ralph's character in this chapter, which is presented as sympathetic, rational, and focused on the group's welfare. Still, he is not a perfect leader.
He also shows men as incapable of conserving or prolonging their life without living under a ruling body, “augmentation of dominion over men being necessary to a man's conservation, it ought to be allowed him.” It is evident that both Machiavelli and Hobbes’ views of man greatly influence the way they think that man should be controlled. Machiavelli believes that man should be lead by a ruler who is manipulative and inspires fear
He feels that our instinctive character is to be selfish, only caring of those pertaining to us. The savage man was not an animal, but rather had beast-like qualities, creating a world of violence and constant war. Locke had a very different ideology on the nature of man. In my opinion, Locke views man through rose-colored glasses, Locke suggests humans naturally follow the moral law, (which can be discovered by reason) he also states that forms of government and society are natural to us, and that war and conflict that ravage our world, occur simply for the reason that we were fighting for what we believe in, and each side believes they`re just. Rousseau suggests that humans were simple; without speech, culture and mature thought prior to our social and cultural development.
Ethicists use these two theories to argue whether the community or the individual is more important, question whether we should follow distributive justice should society just focus on protecting themselves without harming other people? An individualist believes that one has no responsibility to look after others but recognise the obligation to avoid harm. Hobbs lived during a period of social chaos, a revolutionist party were persecuting people for what they believed, including Hobbs. During this time, Hobbs wrote Hobbes Leviathan, which in he described what be believed to be the Hobbesian state of nature, something that all humans are if placed somewhere without social organisation, like a desert island. He quotes life to be “solitary, poor, nasty, brutish and short.” Hobbs also states that as humans we are also motivated by selfish desires between the interests of different groups and this is because of the human state of nature.
He believes that the citizens have the right to rebel against the government if they feel that they are falling into a tyrannical situation or if their rights are not being secured. In his piece he states, “ Men will be able to have a government that does not govern at all.” This makes the reader really question the importance of the government and whether it is really as organized as everyone makes it seem. To support the fact that men could govern themselves Thoreau makes clear that the government does not take care of the duties that citizens accredit them for. Those duties are: keeping the country free, settling the West, and educating. Thoreau believes that the citizens should be involved in the government’s decisions because they pertain to them.