The wait is over. On Sunday, the final episode of Lost aired. The beginning of Lost started off kind of slow, but soon after the excitement began. They continued to show all of the Oceanic passengers crossing paths in the alternate life, the life which shows how the passenger’s lives would have turned out if […]
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John Locke, in the Second Treatise of Government, and Jean-Jacques Rousseau, in On the Origin of Inequality, address the concept of human rights in relation to the establishment and acquisition of private property. Locke takes an almost idealist approach on the matter, arguing that human rights are bolstered by private property, and even goes as […]
Thomas Hobbes and John Locke had very different views on government and society in general. Locke seems to be content that people have a natural ability to cooperate, and so government will eventually be unnecessary. Thomas Hobbes opposes this, saying that in general men are not good, and that the governing body must be governed. […]
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Boston is one of the places where history lurks around every corner. When you walk through the city, history is likely to have been made right beneath your feet, patriots and presidents may have treaded there before you. Everywhere you turn, there is a statue of a historic figure or a historic building inviting you […]
Initially, independence arose in the presence of philosophical inquiries into the “natural right” of man. The theory of ‘Natural Law’ came to fruition before Thomas Jefferson authored the “Declaration of Independence”. God’s creation of man is regarded by some as the beginning of man’s ‘Natural Law‘. Can none of us claim to know the point […]
Teaching or learning ethics in university studies brings with it the potential to use ancient theories to try and cover topics in today’s business environment. While I agree that this can be done successfully, in many ways it is becoming extinct in our globalized world. To this end I will consider John Locke in today’s […]
‘Lost’ Season 6 Episode 8 ‘Recon’ focuses the twin time track experiences on James ‘Sawyer’ Ford, the amoral con artist with the sordid and sorrowful past who seems to have thrown his lot in with the Locke Monster but maybe not. Spoilers surely follow. The Locke Monster sends Sawyer to the neighboring island, with the […]
Two of the most noted and influential modern political thinkers are John Locke and Karl Marx. John Locke was an english philosopher who was famous for his use of empiricism and his social contract theories. Karl Marx was a German political thinker who was famous for his theories regarding class struggle and is well known […]