Essays on General Will

The French Revolution was one of the most important moments in world history. The French Revolution symbolized that the ideologies and methods of the Enlightenment were no longer only the work of philosophes, academics and of the salons of Paris. The French Revolution was the moment when all of this theoretical knowledge regarding the way societies and governments should be organized left the pages and entered the streets, the cafes and the political clubs.  The French Revolution was the result of a crisis in France’s ancien regime and its assertion of the division of the state, the polity, ...

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This was a value which was sourced from Jesus teaching. Soul Force was used to transform and bring peace to Indian people movement society by Gandhi. Today, it is used to change lives of women, men, and children who stay in violent households. The argument of soul force claims that ends and means are inseparable and close. Gandhi rejected the idea that injustice should not be tolerated by all means. Violent, unjust ...

The eighteenth century marked a period of diverse changes in Europe’s politics, philosophy, and science fields due to the influence of many scholars in what is referred to as the age of enlightenment (Kramnick, 1995). The main argument that the academicians and researchers in that period proposed that there were ways that would enable the humans to improve themselves through rational change. The scholars questioned the traditional approaches to those fields with many publications aiming to produce multiple changes especially in the area of philosophy. Jean-Jacques Rousseau counts as one of the most influential contributors of the age ...

The French Revolution is typically the main historical dividing line between the ancient European regimes and the modern world. It marked the transition from the traditional social order to a democratic system. Nevertheless, the transition process was long and violent which eventually led to Napoleon Bonaparte rising to power in 1799 through a military coup d’état. Even though much of its impact was confined to France, it spread to other parts of Europe and the rest of the world. It marked the beginning of the revolutionary wars in the world over. The French Revolution marked the first occasion whereby a democratic ...

- For Locke:John Locke, Second Treatise on Government, 1689 In the “second treatise of government”, Locke advocates that governments are formed through mutual agreement. He is of the view that those who are given the mandate to govern must do so without violating the fundamental rights and freedoms of the people. He opines that people acquire the rights to property, life, and liberty upon birth. Locke’s contention is that governments are supposed to protect the foregoing rights for the benefit of the citizens. Accordingly, he observes that the power to make laws is a preserve of the people. ...

(Professor/Instructor) In 2001, American military forces in Afghanistan arrested American Yaser Hamdi. US military officials charged Hamdi with collaborating with the Taliban and subsequently termed as an “enemy combatant,” and detained to a military detention facility in Virginia. Virginia-based lawyer Frank Dunham filed a motion for habeas corpus for Hamdi in Federal court, initially for his own and then on behalf of Hamdi’s father. In Dunham’s motion to declare Hamdi’s detention unconstitutional, Dunham argued that Hamdi’s “right to due process” as enshrined in the Fifth Amendment by detaining him sine die and not allowing Hamdi ...

Philosophy

In Rousseau’s political thoughts, general will is at the heart of the social contract. General will is the most fundamental principle in Rousseau’s social contract. Social contract gets its legitimacy through only the application of general will. But what this “general will” actually is? To Rousseau general will is not simply the sum total of all individual wills, rather it is the collective will of the people of a community. The general will is something additional to the simply the will of all the individuals. In Rousseau’s view general will is the only source of law and ...

The Rise and Decline of Western Thought and Culture

This book review has been written by Name of Student of Class of Student of Name of College Book Review on How Should We Then Live: The Rise and Decline of Western Thought and Culture “How Should We Then Live: The Rise and Decline of Western Thought and Culture” deals with the major Christian culture written by Francis A. Schaeffer, and published in 1976. Basing on the book, a series of ten films were produced. In the book, Schaeffer objected to the influences of Renaissance, the Charles Darwin and the Enlightenment. His thoughts inspired many leaders of ...

Lysander Spooner was an American philosopher and anarchist who was an ardent supporter of labor movements in his hey days during 19th century. Born in state of Massachusetts in the early years of the 19th century, Spooner a lawyer was against the set legislation that have been instituted by man in a bid to harmonize the daily life of citizens. Spooner questions the authority of the constitution to bid all the citizens both the presently alive and the future generation to obediently follow its doctrines and practices. According to Spooner, there is no way the future generation should be obligated to ...

According to Thomas Hobbes, man existed several centuries ago even before the social contract came to pass. There was a chaotic kind of life where there was no administration and government in place. Hobbes lived during a period of intense war in England between 1642 and 1648. During that period, there were two factions involved in the war. On one, hand, there were the kings together with their supporters who were demanding a monarch kind of governance. On the other hand, there were the parliamentarians under the leadership of Olivier Cromwell. The parliamentarians’ demanded absolute power of the parliament. Hobbes rejected the ...

The most common definition of the term Democracy is the one inferred from its roots in the Greek language, where Demos means people, and Kratos means power. However, establishing that the term Democracy means the power of the people has no practical use if there is no convention on how to give that power to the people, or how people can exert that power, or even the scope of such power and who is considered to be called people. Historically, there have been two conceptions of democracy, each with its own definitions. There is a marked difference between how ...

Summary of the Art of War by Sun Tzu

The Art of War highlights several ideal points which could easily be used in the process of risk management and military capabilities. It is one of the finest books written on military treatise that has been translated from the Chinese languages into various other languages globally. This book by Sun Tzu remained anonymous to England till the 1872 and entered the scene when a French priest with the name of Joseph Amiot, who was residing in China, translated it.

However, the translation was poorly produced. Nevertheless, in 1908, Capt. Callthrop re-wrote it. He came up with a better piece of this ...