Corruption can take many forms and shapes, not acting would then be not to do anything, thus a flaw. ... Arendt also stresses the fact that action is the beginning step since it is the actualization of freedom, it carries with it the capacity to do so much good, to introduce what is totally unexpected. ... This character of startling unexpectedness is inherent in all beginnings. ... And this again is possible only because each man is unique, so that with each birth something uniquely new comes into the world" (p.177).The reality is that humans will do many things that can't be predi...

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Rousseau says that lawful political power does not exist in nature. ... "Might does not create right," explains Rousseau (Book I: III 173). If might produces right, then the people obey their rulers because they are forced to do so, not because they ought to. ... All governments are really mixed in character; and what we call a democracy is only a more or less democratic government. ... The government's role is merely to carry out the decrees, or acts of will, of the Sovereign people. ...

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Rousseau says that lawful political power does not exist in nature. ... "Might does not create right," explains Rousseau (Book I: III 173). If might produces right, then the people obey their rulers because they are forced to do so, not because they ought to. ... All governments are really mixed in character; and what we call a democracy is only a more or less democratic government. ... The government's role is merely to carry out the decrees, or acts of will, of the Sovereign people. ...

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The citizens accepted the change because it provided them with inspiration that was lost during the tensions arising within the oligarchy. ... And in each case the reason is the same: the tyrant can do what he pleases." ... The ring provided him with the power "to take without fear whatever he desires from the agora, go into any house and sleep with whomever he wishes, kill or release from bonds whomever he wants and do other things that gods do to men." ... (McGlew, 27) The ability of a tyrant to have complete control over a city-state created an image within the eyes of the citizens as a cha...

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