The state is corrupt and corrupting. Bakunin believed ‘there is nothing more dangerous for a man’s morality than the habit of commanding’. The state is also destructive. It encourages individuals to fight on their behalf, at the expense of others. As Randolph Bourne put it, ‘war is the health of the state’.
Write down the TWO most important things he says about the writing of history. The two most important things he says about the writing of history are: * He said that we must not accept the memory of states as our own. The history of any country conceals violent conflicts of interest between conquerors and conquered, masters and slaves, capitalists and workers. * But to think that history-writing must intent simply to repeat the failures that control the past is to make historians traitors in an endless cycle of conquest. 1.
He believes that he is cursed when he falls into deep thought, and questions the ways of the collective society (Rand, 21). An example of Equality 7-2521 desiring to know, was when he longed to see a reflection of himself, he thought to himself “Men never see their own faces and never ask their brothers about it, for it is evil to have concern
new Brave New World is a book that centres on the idea that if we allow science to take control of too much of our lives, then science will control us. It is not simply a warning of what could happen to society if things go wrong, it is a satirical look of the society that we live in as well as the society that Aldus Huxley, the author, lived in. From the incompatibility of happiness and truth, shown through the use of soma, to the attempt that the world state makes to control and muffle any attempt by a citizen to gain any sort of scientific truth, we see how serious the matter is when it comes to a society controlled by technology and/or science. It causes one to wonder if the theme of two of the most bloody and ruthless pieces of literature,
Given Hobbes’ account of human nature in the state of nature, can one ever leave it? The well-known and oft-quoted assessment, “the life of man [is] solitary, poor, nasty, brutish and short,” is Hobbes’ unduly pessimistic and anarchical view of man in the state of nature. He believed the state of nature to be a state of war, where man would do anything for self-preservation, there was no right and wrong, and where there would be “continual fear, and danger of violent death.” The natural state of man is left when individuals give up their natural and anarchic freedom to do whatever they please, in exchange for personal security and it is this that Hobbes bases his theory on the need for government on. For a government to be established each individual must agree to this new establishment as if to say, “I authorize and give up my right of governing myself to this man, or to this assembly of men.” This type of social contract works as a quid pro quo between the individuals and the sovereign: the power of the sovereign is absolute as long as the lives of the individuals are protected by the sovereign. Hobbes argues that the only way to establish such a power is for men “to conferre all their power and strength upon One Man, or upon one Assembly of men, that may reduce all their Wills by plurality of voices unto one Will.” In short, Hobbes argues that man leaves the state of nature in order to gain personal security which is achieved through the creation of a civil society, with a governing body.
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.
One reason is that anytime men are able to take up arms against the local government so that they may improve their lives; they are fooling themselves. A prince will have to do harm those who helped him rise to power because he is forcing them to live with any of the problems he will have taking the principality and holding the acquired territory. Because of these things you are opposed by the people who opposed you from the start and the people who helped you overthrow the territory. It will always be difficult to acquire new territories. New difficulties
Naturally,For he knows the explanation:Its sedition,Working through bribery".Creon is the type of person that need bribery inorder for him to do the right things for society. Creon ruled the entire state but does not listen to the societys good intensions. "For me, a man who rules the entire state and does not take the best advice there is,but through fear keeps his mouth forever shut..."Creon may rule the entire state but he keeps his mouth "forever shut" becasue he is afraid of the
Alexander Hamilton once stated, "Why has government been instituted at all? Because the passions of men will not conform to the dictates of reason and justice, without constraint." By saying this, Hamilton meant a government is required because people cannot make decisions based upon their instincts. The voice and thoughts of one are too irresponsible or unreasonable to make decisions. Mankind needs laws and obligations to live by, not only to keep peace but to protect ourselves from our basic nature.
One is free to be him/herself, with no outside problems; nothing is bogging the self down from freedom. Society distracts one from achieving the goal of freedom from societies boundaries and so a way to reach this freedom is to release one’s self from the boundaries and going into nature. The most important concept of the self in the