(Book II, 368d- end Book III, 412c-end) Here he makes his views known that wisdom is not just something that you are born with, but comes through experience. ... In Book III, 386a-412b, and Book IV, 419a-434c, we see the expression of Socrates' view on courage personified in the auxiliaries. ... This shows in the rule of specialization that was implemented in Book II, 368d- end. ... There was also no need for gold or silver for the guardians as seen in Book II, 415a. ... In Book IV we see Socrates talking about justice and the just individual. ...

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In the state of nature, says Rousseau, "man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains" (Book I: I 169). ... "Might does not create right," explains Rousseau (Book I: III 173). ... In Book II, Rousseau will first explain the inalienable status of the sovereign, the body of people that are "the true foundation on which all Societies rest" and then the laws that help to maintain the loyalty of its subjects (Book I: V 179). ... Humbly speaking, in default of natural sanctions, the laws of justice are ineffective among men" (Book II: VI). ... Rousseau, after upholding the State's absolute...

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In the state of nature, says Rousseau, "man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains" (Book I: I 169). ... "Might does not create right," explains Rousseau (Book I: III 173). ... In Book II, Rousseau will first explain the inalienable status of the sovereign, the body of people that are "the true foundation on which all Societies rest" and then the laws that help to maintain the loyalty of its subjects (Book I: V 179). ... Humbly speaking, in default of natural sanctions, the laws of justice are ineffective among men" (Book II: VI). ... Rousseau, after upholding the State's absolute...

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Education is used to make everyone conform by overloading society with idle information and by book burning which is to prevent individuals from thinking on their own. ... Bradbury was concerned as he felt people were less likely to read books and be educated, he expresses his value for conformity in the book through the use of advanced technology (telewalls) as citizens accept what they see and don't question government authority. ... The state uses futuristic tech to avoid individuals from thinking and to conform, for example Montag tries to remember a book in the train however he can...

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I am going to start by a small introduction to each book and then relate them both to each other in terms of differences and similarities. As a start, Paine's book explains how a society is positive and constructive for its people, whereas a government originates from the evil of man and has main duties to protect liberty, life and property. ... Both authors use an analogy which sounds similar in each book, but the opposite use of the analogy gives it a philosophical depth on two different levels. ... Towards the end of Paine's book, one can feel the nationalism and the reasoning acc...

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At several points, the Politics looks back to the conception of the highest human good worked out in the Nicomachean Ethics, and the concluding chapter of the Nicomachean Ethics (X.9) looks forward to the Politics, culminating in a list of questions about political systems which corresponds reasonably well to the questions he addresses in the Politics, as the following chart indicates: Outline of the Politics Questions in Nicomachean Ethics X.9.1181b17-24 Book I: types of communities: the city, the household; household management Book II: critical survey of proposed and actual constitutio...

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The first, most obvious purpose of The Prince is stated by the author himself, addressing Lorenzo de' Medici: If you will read [this book] over and study it carefully, you will recognize in it my most earnest desire that you may achieve that summit of grandeur to which your happy destiny and your other capacities predestine you. ... It could easily be said that with this book the author may have trying to ingratiate himself to all the local nobility; on the other hand, knowing what follows might also suggest that Machiavelli was really attempting to play off the nobility's fears ...

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In his book emerges the need of bringing back equality and justice in the society, and to achieve this goal the author gives a specific project in order to establish a fairer state. One of the main point in this book, which is really modern and to some extent anticipates the Marxist doctrine, is that Rousseau thinks that is not human beings to be corrupted but the society itself which consequently affects the human behavior (Held:2006, 44). ... While for liberalists the state has the only purpose of ensuring the fundamental rights, that cannot be restricted or denied, for Rousseau as his book ...

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The book could only be written from the most profound conviction that such a future could indeed happen, a conviction motivated by societies where "Big Brother" already existed in large parts of the world when Orwell wrote the book. ...

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Plato believed in Classical Conservation, that justice in our society has a "natural order" of things and in his book, The Republic, he goes into detail about how just like human organs, society has a harmony where all individuals play a key role and perform to their abilities. ... In Robert Nozick's book titled, Anarchy, State and Utopia, he states that, "individuals have rights, and there are things no person or group may do to them without violating their rights" (2). ...

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The wording is different then in Locke's book but the ideas and principles remain the same. ... Locke was basically putting his life on the line when he wrote his book because it was written at a tumultuous time in European history when monarchy was prevalent. ...

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In his book "Politics," Aristotle begins his work by outlining his ideas concerning human nature and the formation of what he calls political associations. ... This natural association of a family unity provides Aristotle support in his claim that, "the state is the creation of nature, and man is by nature a political animal" (Politics Book I.ii.). ... He describes speech as, "a characteristic of man that he alone has any sense of good and evil, of just and unjust, and the like, and the association of living beings who have this sense makes a family and a state" (Politics B...

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To understand More's work, it is important to define what a utopia is, how the term came about and what literature influenced More as well as how More's book influenced following generations of utopia writers due to this startlingly original work. ...

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Machiavelli stresses this later on the book when discussing the benefits of building fortresses, he states, "the best fortress a ruler can have is not to be hated by the people" . ... At times Machiavelli's prince will seem to be harsh, cruel, hypocritical or deceitful but this is not a book about how to govern ones social life, it is a book, as Machiavelli puts it in the second chapter, about "governing principalities and how they can be maintained" . ...

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In Locke's' book "Two Treatises of Government" he argued that when a government is unfit to rule the citizens of its country the masses should overthrow it. ... In Hobbes book "Leviathan" he argued that humans are not rational and could not properly make decisions for themselves, therefore concluding that man is bad in nature. ...

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Bernard Bailyn composed the book The Origins of American Politics in the form of three essays, which were delivered, in their original form in November of 1965 as the Charles K. ... There were 144 articles published between November 1720 and December 1723 and they were all compiled into a four-volume book called Cato's Letters. ...

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In his book Wealth of Nations, Smith states that the government has three functions and none initiated any kind of government-regulated market or economy. ... In Polanyi's book, The Great Transformation, he states, "While laissez-faire economy was the product of deliberate state action, subsequent restrictions on laissez-faire started in a spontaneous way. ...

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Throughout the history of our world, political theories have governed nations great and small; regulating the teeming masses. In the under-developed third world country of Iraq the only apparent governing political theory was terrorism and a cult like hierarchy that left Iraq in a swarm of U.S. bou...

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While some have considered this book to be a bible for tyrants and condemn Machiavelli as a preacher of political immorality, the message that he was clearly trying to present was that the historically held beliefs that noble traits such as honesty and godly virtues that a ruler should possess would eventually lead to his destruction if and when the citizens choose to exploit his weakness. ... Regardless of the reasons the book was written, it is remarkable that so many of the observations and suggestions contained within the publication can be seen five centuries later. ...

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The successful Revolution against England gave the American people newfound independence and the opportunity to create a new government of their own design and intent. It gave them a changed society in which privilege and bloodlines counted for little and ideals and human equality counted for much....

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Love (in Niccolo Machiavelli's The Prince) The Prince by Niccolo Machiavelli is the book that was based on examples of princes and other rulers of Spain, Italy, and other European countries at the time of Renaissance. ...

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Lately technology has become one of the important aspects of life, especially the Internet. It also has many effects in political involvement throughout the nation. Some say Internet and technology impacted the society in negative way, but on the other hand quite a people agreed that it has positive...

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How does Rousseau conceive the relationship between democracy and freedom? What are the main merits of and problems with his approach? Although the Social Contract promises freedom to the members of the state this freedom does not automatically include democracy. Democracy is suggested as a possi...

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For a political system to be stable, the possessors of power need to be balanced against each other. As Lord Acton said: "Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely". Concentration of government authority inevitably leads to abuse; separation serves as a check on abuse. By...

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The Enlightenment was an intellectual movement occurring in Europe throughout the late seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. This period placed an emphasis on reason, analysis, and individualism in place of the traditional authorities like the Church that had played a major role in people's lives si...

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