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Massachusetts Bay Colony Theory Of Motivation
2,714 wordsOne of the most hazardous tasks a historian tackles is determining what motivated the actions of a past society. Even for a present-day society, this task is fraught with perils. Are a society's motivations the sum of its adult participants? Do we give special weight to the goals of its leaders? Should we regard the society's stated goals as accurate communications of motivation, discard them as intentionally deceptive, or dissect those statements as indications of deeper desires that are too pa...
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Mid Nineteenth Century Life And Death
1,335 wordsIn Memoriam is an elegy to Tennyson's friend Arthur Hallam, but bears the hallmark of its mid nineteenth century context - "the locus classics of the science-and-religion debate. " Upon reflection, Hallam's tragic death has proved to be an event that provoked Tennyson's embarkation upon a much more ambitious poetic project than conventional Miltonian elegy, involving meditation upon the profoundest questions faced by mankind. Scientific advancements, most notably in the fields of geology and bio...
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Method Of Doubt Sense Perception
668 wordsPhilosophical Questions In his Meditation I Descartes requires the method of doubt as a precondition of knowledge. Lets examine Descartes famous warranted assertion Cogito, ergo sum (I think, therefore, I am) within the framework of the method of doubt as a precondition of knowledge. This assertion becomes the crucial moment because the assertion guarantees verity. The essence of the matter is that in case the statement is asserted, it means that somebody should accomplish this assertion; in cas...
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State Of Nature State Of War
2,773 wordsOne of the main concepts in both Plato's Republic and Hobbes Leviathan is justice. For Plato, the goal of his Republic is to discover what justice is and to demonstrate that it is better than injustice. Plato does this by explaining justice in two different ways: through a city or polis and through an individual human beings soul. He uses justice in a city to reveal justice in an individual. For Hobbes, the term justice is used to explain the relationship between morality and self-interest. Hobb...
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Numerical Majority Federalist Papers
3,849 wordsThe Disquisition of Government by John Calhoun was written as a document to primarily defend the ideologies of the South. It was a work of that elaborated on John Calhoun? s Political Theory, which mentions the idea of a concurrent majority, which is that a concurrent majority on an issue is one composed of an agreement of the most important minority interests in a society. He believed that a constitution having a majority behind it would protect people against the numerical majority. Calhoun tr...
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