In "The Nature of the State" written in 1895, Treitschke argues that the state is the all powerful and must do anything in its power to maintain itself because "the state protects and embraces the life of the people, regulating it externally in all directions"(12). ...
Comparing and contrasting Marx" belief on religion as a social opium, along with Emile Durkheim and Max Weber's understanding and account of religion within society. How do we account for religion - its origin, its development, and even its persistence in modern society? This is a question, which has occupied many people in a variety of fields for quite a long time. At one point, the answers were framed in purely theological and religious terms, assuming the truth of Christian revelations and proceeding from there. But through the 18th and 19th centuries, a more "naturalistic" appr...