Republics

When examining documents from France regarding who has power and why, it is easily seen how this area would become such a powder keg. Each document presents a new perspective on the sovereignty of different ruling parties and ruling systems. All the documents describe a different perspective of power’s source. In “On Sovereignty” by Bodin, Bodin writes that power is divinely gifted from God to kings. Jean-Jacques Rousseau writes in The Social Contract a direct contradiction from Bodin, the…

angas In 1513, the Italian diplomat, writer, and philosopher Niccoló Machiavelli released his political treatise titled De Principatibus, or The Prince. His book not only formed the basis for political science and is considered one of the first works of modern philosophy, but also stressed many ideas that remain controversial in modern day politics. One of the more prominent ideas in Machiavelli’s masterpiece is that the ends of one’s actions justify how they got there. This idea that someone’s…

There are many different types of governments in history. When you compare a Constitutional Monarchy and a Democratic Presidency, it can be clear that the two are very different but alike. For the Democratic Party, the people hold its’ supreme power. For example, the United States falls under the Democratic Presidency. The U.S. is broken up into different levels, and three branches concluded of the executive, legislative, and judicial branches. For a Constitutional Monarchy, it is the oldest…

Throughout history presidency is known as one of the most important positions in all of American government. Whoever is determined to be president has the responsibility of shaping the way people look at America as a whole through not only their actions but also through their words. I’m sure we can call agree that the essence of the presidency has certainly evolved considerably over the course of American history. Although the twentieth century is revolved around a president-centered government,…

In the book Plato Republic Glaucon presents the threefold taxonomy of the value of justice. This taxonomy is that justice is good for its consequences, good for its own sake, or both. The idea that justice is good for its consequences is pretty self-explanatory. An example comes when someone thinks about exercise or physical training; if that person exercised regularly, but never saw any results then it would be pointless to keep exercising. Some other examples of this our medicine, jobs,…

The area I am choosing for my potential service project is the Dominican Republic. The Dominican Republic has many areas that suffer from a lack of good education. Therefore, I think a good service project could be some form of trade school. This could be something along the lines of farming, glassmaking, or another form of hands on work. Not only could this trade school be used to teach adults, it could extend even to children to teach them how to read, write, and other endeavors into education…

Through Republic and Timaeus, Plato explains that the distinction between being and becoming has to do with one’s progression from simple, uninformed thoughts to a higher understanding that rivals that of the gods. In Timaeus, he explains that there are two categories: that which always is and has no becoming, which is grasped by understanding, and that which becomes but never is, which is grasped by opinion and sensory perception (Plato 27d-28a). Additionally, in order to transition from…

the Roman Republic. The people of the Roman Republic were divided according to the social status, most of the political power was in the hand of the Patricians, who were the members of certain elite families. The divided social status has given the most of power directly to the patrician men, who had dominated the Roman republic on both political and legal aspects. The most important institution of the republic was the senate, whose overwhelming power was a threat to the whole republic; they had…

rate for the past 48 years has been 5.4%. In a country known for Caribbean beaches, and crews, inequality bans lower-income residents from traveling to parts of their own countries that are visited by foreigners. Economic signs for the Dominican Republic seem promising, but is fraught with numerous problems including violence against women, and low education levels. The country will not be able to achieve any development unless the education system is changed. Education is the main means where…

“Plato and Immortality: An examination of the argument in the Republic, Book X,” an article by R. R. Hartford, argues that the tenth book of the Republic is noteworthy because of its historical influence on thought and because of Plato’s striking claims throughout. It emphasizes the Phaedrus argument, that reasoned the endless position of the spirit from which everything else lacks and shows that the Republic argument comes to the same conclusion because the soul lacks a characteristic which…