State under a Machiavellian Ruler vs. Utopian State By Donald Collett A Machiavellian society is ruled by a princedom in which peasants worked most of the occupations. Nobles did not perform any physical labor. And the military is strong and follows the prince. In a Utopian society there is a community of senior phylarchs who discuss state issues. Everyone spends time in the farmlands for two year periods. The Utopians despise war and at all costs do not get involved in war. In Machiavellian
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Notes and Questions ROBERT NOZICK‚ from Anarchy State‚ and Utopia 1. Robert Nozick defends liberal individualism and private ownership using his own development of Lockean natural rights theory. Ownership is justified‚ according to Nozick‚ if it is (a) justly acquired or (b) justly transferred and (c) not subject to the principle of rectification. Explain these three principles. 2.Nozick discusses the distinction between historical and end-state or patterned theories of property distribution. How
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In Robert Nozick’s Anarchy‚ State‚ and Utopia‚ Nozick uses the example of Wilt Chamberlin‚ a very wealthy basketball player‚ to show that liberty is incompatible with any patterned theory of distributive justice. According to Nozick there are three sets of rules of justice‚ defining: How things not previously possessed by anyone may be acquired; How possession may be transferred from one person to another; and What must be done to rectify injustices arising from violations of (1) and (2). First
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essays and histories. Like Dante‚ a generation before Petrarch wrote in a vernacular style to bring Italian a literary language. In this letter‚ Petrarch offers advice on how to rule as an effective leader. He uses various examples and sources to support his theories of how a good ruler should rule by laying out a good model. Petrarch emphasizes the first quality of a good leader should be friendly to the good citizens. He believed that nothing was worse for the state than to use fear and cruelty
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Machiavellian characteristics Machiavelli wrote the book The Prince and in the book he wrote how a ruler should treat his kingdom. His ideas were based on political instability of his time. Machiavelli argues that it is better for a leader to be feared than to be loved because fear brings order and loyalty. Friendships are acquired with money and not through greatness and nobility of character. Machiavelli also said never waste alliance with less powerful states‚ always set out to decrease
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Distributive Justice Robert Nozick From Anarchy‚ State‚ and Utopia‚ 149-182‚ with omissions. Copyright @ 1974 by Basic Books‚ Inc. Reprinted by permission of Basic Books‚ a subsidiary of Perseus Books Group‚ LLC. The minimal state is the most extensive state that can be justified. Any state more extensive violates people’s rights. Yet many persons have put forth reasons purporting to justify a more extensive state. It is impossible within the compass of this book to examine all the reasons that have
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the anti-realist assumption might be due to an ironic fact: American elites are more predisposed towards liberal internationalism than the rest of the American public. abstaining from moral or ideological crusades designed to make the world more like America. This is fundamentally at odds with the more optimistic tropes inherent in liberal internationalism. Liberals would argue that multilateral regimes‚ democratic institutions‚ and economic interdependence can ameliorate the effects of anarchy
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civilization‚ high-tech versus low-tech‚” described Hallman in his work‚ In Utopia. Utopias and dystopias show the contrast between two polar ideas depending on the point of view of the person. Essentially‚ somebody’s utopia is another person’s dystopia‚ which proves that no two people are completely alike. So‚ the minute differences between two peoples’ preferences could lead to a stark divide that is enough to create each person’s utopia and dystopia. The photograph submitted captured a worm’s eye view
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The United States Will Fall Like Rome The United States is a powerful nation that is around 250 years old replicating that of Rome whose empire lasted 270 years. These empires have similar backgrounds regarding their foundation and governmental structures. The U.S. has a democracy that allows citizens to participate in the government while Rome’s republic acts the same way. Also‚ the United States’ legislative body is made up of Congress just like Rome who had a Senate. Some social pressures
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South African state‚ as it developed under Smuts and his post 1948 successors can be considered a developmental state‚ this essay will consider two things. Firstly it will consider what is meant by a developmental state and what a developmental state consists of‚ and secondly it will consider the state of South Africa from 1948 onward‚ as developed under Smuts and other successors. Lastly this essay will discuss what legacy this left for a post-apartheid government. Developmental states initially
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