Lawrence Hwang Mrs. Sauter World History/ Block D 12/15/14 Topic #1 Governments play a major role in today’s society. The governments’ function is to protect the rights of the people. But, how did we establish this idea? Around the 1650s-1850s, these ideas were introduced by philosophers. Thomas Hobbes, John Locke, and Karl Marx all had a major influence to today’s government. Hobbes and Locke had very diverse ideas and conclusions about the role of the government. Marx on the other hand, believed
Introduction: Thesis In the Genealogy of Morality Nietzsche’s writing serves to suspend our judgment so that our perceptions of complex ideas and concepts goes beyond the simplistic categories of good and evil. His work challenges us to think beyond internalized morals and ideas and work toward thinking about ideas that are beyond the usual While in Foucault’s Discipline and Punishment, he explains the important of being aware of the disciplinary methods used by the government and society to maintain
government that has complete control over all aspects of the lives of its citizens is known as fascism. A fascist government conflicts with the views of a democratic government, as they are almost complete opposites. Comparisons can be drawn between Fascism and Communism as they both share similar views. Leading to believe that it would also be very difficult for a communist takeover of the United States to occur. It has never
goods. After Karl Marx's death in 1883 parts of the Marxism ideology altered and sometimes changed. This was done in order to suit the needs of those using the ideology and to also accommodate communism, which was practiced by Vladimir Lenin in the early 1900s. This hybrid was called Marxism-Leninism, communism, or socialism (Marxism, 2002, pg. 211-
According to the New World Encyclopedia, “The Jeju Uprising or Jeju Massacre (old spelling, "Cheju") refers to the rebellion and subsequent heavy government suppression on Jeju Island, South Korea, beginning April 3, 1948. …… between 30,000 and 60,000 people were killed in fighting between factions. Suppression of the rebellion by the South Korean army was brutal, resulting in tens of thousands of deaths, destroying many villages on the island, and sparking rebellions on the Korean mainland.” In Jiseul the
Tocqueville and Marx both argue for an egalitarian modern society but their idea of equality for the modern social order differs, which leads to two distinctive conclusions, democracy for the former and communism for the latter, which is adopted by different nations in the world. Both social theorists place high importance in analysing the history of society to determine the modern social order, and agree with the rise of the industrial capitalist society following the collapse of the feudal social
The Soviet Union underwent a great loss in 1953. The announcement of Stalin’s death came on March 5. The mysterious death of Stalin unchained the new directions of development hidden before. Logically, opinions regarding the past as well as future plans of soviet nations were not similar. At the funeral of Stalin were presented three speeches by Malenkov, Beria, and Molotov. Those speeches gave significant key messages to soviet people. Considering the fact that speeches of high officials were not
Various ethical theories aim to either prescribe or proscribe certain actions in order to determine what is moral. Kantian deontological ethics primarily focuses on “negative duties,” or proscribed actions. To meet Kant’s standard of the Categorical Imperative, one must act only from maxims that can be consistently willed to be a universal law. Under Kantian deontology, actions’ moralities are determined independently of their outcomes; certain acts are always right or wrong, even if they lead to