Politics is the highest form of virtuous activity and it’s a development and improvement for the citizens. The purpose of a good man Aristotle believes is that politics is worth it for a happy men and perfect nation. He believes that men survive best in society where there are rules. Politics can fulfill their potential. Need for possession is knowledge.
This shows that Mill saw humans as creative individuals thus leading to an interest of tolerance as a political virtue i.e. political tolerance. The liberals argued that our own freedom depends upon all people enjoying the same freedom. This lead to their view of the state be limited to a minimum number of functions, mainly confined to protecting people from each other, defending the nation and preventing the accumulation of
Also “empty alliances” refers to how when confrormed into a society, people are unified, but it is empty because there is no real meaning to the unity of society because peple want to be with other people. “An end to ego baths” says that once sineone is free, they will not have any gratitude in helping smeoneout because there will be no one with you to help, so therefore you won’t have the same ‘happy’ feeling. Referring to the results of being free, freedom “confronts loneliness and lives with it”. In other words, one will be lonely once they are in a state of freedom. There are also some positives to being free.
The constitution does this with the first amendment allowing for free speech whether it’s popular or not. American society is seen (at least in theory) as a place where you can immigrate to poor and through hard work and determination make yourself into whatever you want to become. This social mobility also has to do with comparing equality of opportunity with that of equality of results. Opportunity is where you believe that everyone deserves an equal opportunity to achieve prosperity and results is where you believe that equal effort demands equal results. With opportunity you have the challenge of reaching the very poor and the destitute with the same opportunities as the rich.
The declaration affirmed that all men have equal and inalienable rights and that the purpose of government is to preserve those rights. “It listed the rights as “liberty, property, security, and resistance to oppression." Liberty was defined as “the power to do anything that does not injure others (Declaration of Rights of Man).” The declaration guaranteed protection from arbitrary arrest and the assent of the people to taxation. It endorsed free communication of ideas, but with the provision that this freedom was subject to legal restrictions against abuse. The English Bill of Rights of 1689 was similar to the United States Constitution regarding the first eight amendments.
Independence As a human being in this world there are certain rights that can not and should not be taken from us. Jefferson defines those rights of a citizen as “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness”(Jefferson 78). When those freedoms are threatened we wont just watch them be taken from us we will stand together and fight for the rights god has given us. Jefferson was someone who saw that we needed to break away from the crown to secure our rights as a free nation. One example Jefferson gives to prove this is “He has refused to pass other laws for the accommodation
Contentment should be out of fullness and not laziness. Even though philosophers like Plato disagree with this statement (especially in Republic VII), other people may disagree which means that there really is no true answer. The people that agree with this statement however, would have not encountered enlightenment and are therefore less important that philosophers that have which makes this statement completely false in one’s
Milgram’s conclusion really advocates King’s belief, because the surprising conclusion of obedience to authority is what King does not believe to be the way of social relations. In the period of segregation, no one was doing anything even though they knew it was wrong because the government was the authority. So King opposes obedience based on his
In the eulogy, Pericles praises Athens, describing what makes it great and galvanizing its citizens. About the Athenian government, he observes, “Let me say that our system of government does not copy the institutions of our neighbours. It is more the case of ours being a model to others, than of our imitating anyone else” (2.37). He goes on to explain how everyone in Athens “[I]s equal before the law” and adds that “[J]ust as our political life is free and open, so is our day-to-day life in our relations with each other” (2.37). Pericles continues, discussing Athenian attitude towards military security, the educational system, the city’s bravery, and its relationship with other nations.
Their sexual orientation does not dictate the kind of person they are. What they do to others does. Most gays and lesbians are not in the streets trying to tell other people that the religious groups are the bad people, they just want to be left alone. In times of war among countries the enemy has an agenda and the opposing side will harm who they must to protect their own, yet this is not war. Homosexuals are not hurting anyone by being homosexual, so why such hostility?