the state. Among those thinkers were the philosophers Thomas Hobbes‚ John Locke‚ and Jean-Jacques Rousseau who all differ in the manner in which they view the ideal form of the state. Hobbes believed the power of the monarch should be absolute in order to maintain peace in the state‚ whereas Locke believed that government existed only to protect its people and to allow them to have right to life‚ liberty‚ and property‚ however‚ Rousseau believed in an individual freedom and direct democracy. This
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The contemporary artist that I chose to discuss in this paper is Louise Bourgeois and her piece of art Eyes". This abstract sculpture is made of marble and dated 1982. Eyes‚ 1982 Louise Bourgeois (American‚ born France‚ 1911) Metropolitan Museum‚ New York Louise Bourgeois was born in Paris in 1911and studied art at various schools there. In 1938‚ she immigrated to the United States and continued her studies at the Art Students League in New York. She began her career as a painter and
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Canadian Literature February 15‚ 2008 Louise Halfe – Healing Through Orality and Spirituality in Poetry Louise Bernice Halfe was born in 1953 in Two Hills‚ Alberta. Her Cree name is SkyDancer. She grew up a member of the Saddle Lake Reserve and at the age of 7 was sent to the Blue Quills Residential School in St. Paul‚ Alberta. . After leaving the school at the age of 16‚ she attended St. Paul’s Regional High School where she began to journal about her life experiences
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Louise Bennett BIOGRAPHY September 7‚ 1919 – July 26‚ 2006 Louise Bennett was born in Kingston‚ Jamaica‚ and attended Ebenezer and Calabar Elementary Schools‚ St. Simon’s College‚ Excelsior College‚ and Friends College in Highgate‚ St Mary. She received a British Council scholarship to attend the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art‚ where she studied in the late 1940s. On her return to Jamaica she taught drama to youth and adult groups both in social welfare agencies and for the University of the West
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The Influence of Kant and Rousseau on the Enlightenment The eighteenth century was a time of rapid change and development in the way people viewed humans and their interaction with others in society. Many countries experience revolution and monarchies were overthrow. People began to question the values that were ingrained in society and governments that ruled them. Two of the biggest philosophers of that time were Immanuel Kant and Jean-Jacques Rousseau‚ who both ignite the overthrow of tradition
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The enlightenment idea of John Locke and Rousseau differ from Thomas Hobbes is that they all see enlightenment in a different part of light‚ but yet they all agree on enlighten as learning knowledge‚ and wisdom. The European intellectual movement of the late 17th and 18th centuries emphasizing reason and individualism rather than tradition “John Locke and Rousseau believe in “natural rights”‚ while Hobbes believes that people are naturally wicked and cannot be trusted. To govern
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Jean Jacques Rousseau Jean-Jacques Rousseau is one of the most well-known philosophers to ever live. A Swiss born philosopher‚ writer‚ and political theorist‚ Rousseau’s writing inspired the leaders of the French Revolution‚ Enlightenment movement and the Romantic generation. Rousseau is thought to be the least academic of the modern philosophers and his thought brought the Age of Reason to an end. Rousseau was extremely influential at his time. He had a direct impact on people’s way of life‚ opened
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The concept of nature is very important in a lot of Rousseau philosophical work and the social contract is a good example of this. He puts forward the idea that that there is a covenant or social contract between members of society this idea is not a new one can be traced back to Plato’s Crito however Plato’s social contract is between the individual and the law not the will of the people(Plato 51 c 53a) He is famous for his common enlightenment position that we are better off being noble in our
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In his dogma Rousseau clarifies the notion of infatuation with one’s self. In the phase of amour de soi this is where individuals begin to construct communities. However‚ when God designed the universe he did not expect individuals to build cities. In the stage of amour de soi‚ Rousseau supports that individuals experience self- preservation which is not detrimental to society. For instance‚ humans
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Born more than 100 years apart Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Karl Marx were political thinkers from different time periods with different areas of emphasis that posed very provocative questions about society that we are still asking today. Both Rousseau and Marx did not agree with the classic liberal thinkers Thomas Hobbes and John Locke. The majority of commonalities between Rousseau and Marx are in the fact that they refuted parts of Hobbes and Locke‚ that is where the comparisons between the two
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