The following essays, which were the first of the Goodrich Lecture Series at Wabash College, examine the concept of liberty as it has been understood from antiquity through the twentieth century. Since they were delivered, some of the essays have been modified, but the original thrust of the lecture series has been preserved. ... These essays examine the meaning given to the concept of liberty in selected periods of Western history. ... Professor Rufus Fears's essay opens this unique collection by examining the concept of liberty in Republican Rome and its transformation from the period...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

He wrote an essay which was entitled, 'Thoughts on Education'. And from that essay it could be deciphered that he was most unhappy at school. ... He explained this giving a beautiful example. The example was that we arrive at knowledge in the opposite way a spider spins his web from its bowels. ... Concept of Human Nature Locke's view on man is summed up in his Essay on Human Understanding. ...

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The Lear described in many critical essays sounds less like Shakespeare's monarch than the middle-class recreations of Lear in the nineteenth-century fiction of writers like Balzac and Turgenev. ... In another essay on "King Lear," I have tried to extend Jaffa's analysis, analyzing the process of education the king undergoes when he loses power. ... In this essay, I will examine largely the second half of King Lear, and trace what happens to Lear when he learns the truths to which his position as king initially blinded him. ...

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MASTERWORKS OF POLITICAL THEORY Midterm Essay Niccolo Machiavelli, Martin Luther, Thomas Hobbes, and John Locke were four political theorists who shared a like mind in the need for the foundation of government and the extent to which its power and authority should reach. ... His essay, Secular Authority: How Far Should It Be Obeyed was, in comparison to the other authors to be discussed herein, based more on the theological thinking of the 16th century. ...

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"Man in the State of Nature;" which is further discussed in this essay as well as in the works themselves, is the characterization of the natural man. ... This point, for example, is worthwhile. ... Jean-Jacques Rousseau, our third and final philosopher, was a native Genevian who in his 1755 essay, The Discourse of Inequality, sarcastically denounces the theories of many modern philosophers. ... This benefit, for example, is not a function of a loss of peace. the State of Nature. ...

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In the Essay Concerning Human Understanding, John Locke speculated about how politics must confront the issue "of freedom the will of the individual"(Locke, 43) and how their freedom must be subject to "constant, certain, and known principals"(Locke, 44), so that when conflicts of justifying rights emerge the government will have a guide by which to reference their decision against. ... First to be discussed are rights that protect individual's religion and ethnicity as examples to how the majority has discriminated against the individual. Rights that promote the rule of law, such as the ...

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An example of a conflict that is related to their theories about human nature and human society is the situation that is going on between the United States and Iraq. ... (Laycock, Essay Topics) The solution is to compare the arguments and juxtapose the views of Hobbe's and Locke on the particular question and conclude that the most logical argument is most likely the most logical solution. ...

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An Essay on Man, a poetic summary of current philosophical speculation projects man's perfection in the life to come. ... The Bill of Rights is an example of such a contract between people and the government. ...

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