Essays on Libertarianism

In order to ensure peace and prosperity of a country, most governments have employed the use of stringent rules and regulations to govern people. However, some people stray away from the common perception of government and embrace anarchy. Anarchy is basically opposite of what the government stands for, anarchism is a political ideology (Carter, 1971) that holds the state undesirable and harmful while advocating for stateless institutions. The view of anarchists stray away from the commons masses and more often they tend to go extreme and cause social disturbance and unrest (Gage, 2009)as was the case of the ...

Compare and Contrast

Philosophy

Introduction The context of determinism, compatibilism, and libertarianism can be attributed to the two notions of freedom the metaphysical and circumstantial. The latter encompasses an idea that everyone has freedom to act without being interfered by any obstacle while the former demonstrates the freedom of oneself to choose among alternatives. This notion of freedom will be articulated in this discussion by comparing and contrasting the philosophical context of determinism, compatibilism, and libertarianism. Furthermore, the discussion will also differentiate the three positions in terms of strengths and weaknesses. Based on the interpretation of the three positions, a personal take ...

The notion "freedom" has many meanings, each of which applies to a particular sphere of life of the individual. Solving the problem of freedom is impossible without an understanding of the specifics of these values, and without disclosing the inner relationship of liberties. Most of all, to speak of freedom, it is possible to speak about two of its basic values. Speaking about free will, there is a possibility not to hesitate to define their internal desires, aspirations, and the second value is freedom of action, that is, the absence of obstacles to the implementation of the desired action. ...

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Free Will and Determinism Are human actions and behavior predetermined or are they self-caused by will? The debate about to what extent humans are free in making decisions and proceeding with their lives was one of the central problems of philosophy since its emergence. Many bright minds pondered on this problem offering different decisions to it. But what is the whole debate about? It would not be so important and acute if the problem stood by itself. However, the consequences of the decision to this issue strongly influence other questions and fields of philosophy. Particularly, the strongest implications are ...

In the summer of 1884, four English sailors, Thomas Dudley, Edward Stephens, Brooks and Richard Parker who was a cabin boy were cast away in a storm in the Atlantic Ocean and were forced to put into an open boat from which they were stranded. Inside the boat, they had only two tins of turnips. They lacked supply of water and food for three days. Fortunately, on the fourth day they caught a turtle on which they fed till the twelfth day when it was entirely consumed. The depended on the sporadic rain for the supply of fresh water. ...

Philosophy

Explain the connections between pleasure, contemplation, and judgment in aesthetic appreciation. Aesthetics is the branch of philosophy; it is type of quality hypothesis or axiology, which is the investigation of sensory or sensori-passionate qualities, called judgments of sentiment and taste. Aesthetics is connected with the logic of art. Style is once in a while called "the investigation of magnificence". Judgments of aesthetics esteem depend on our capacity to separate at a tactile level. Aesthetics looks at what makes something wonderful, glorious, appalling, fun, adorable, senseless, enthralling, bombastic, empowering, grating, agreeable, exhausting, comical, or disastrous. Tactile separation is connected to ...

An Analysis of Chapters 4 & 5

In chapter 4 of the book Justice: What’s the right thing to do? by Michael Sandel, the issue of justice was discussed in terms of free markets. According to the discussion, free markets exhibit the concept of libertarianism and utilitarianism (Sandel 1998, p.44). When people take part in voluntary trade without interference from the government, they are able to exercise their freedom according to libertarianism. In the same manner, two people who are engaged in the said trade both gain and increase their utility without hurting anyone and as such, utilitarian philosophy is applied. However, others argue that ...