bDerek Taylor POSC 402-01 14 Feb. 2013 Paper No. 1 Social contract theorists Thomas Hobbes and John Locke agree that legitimate government comes only from the mutual consent of those governed. Although both were empiricists‚ the ways by which they came to their conclusions differed wildly‚ and perhaps as a result their views on the means by which society should be governed also conflicted. This paper will briefly address the different conclusions as well as the reasoning that led to them.
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The concept of attachment was first introduced by John Bowlby (1969)‚ who emphasizes the importance of mother-child relationship. Attachment is the close‚ enduring emotional bond to parents or other caregiver‚ and it is necessary for normal social and emotional development. Mary Ainsworth further expanded upon Bowlby’s attachment theory in her “Strange Situation” study. She concluded that there were three styles of attachment: secure‚ resistant‚ and avoidant. A fourth attachment style was later added
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Ashlyn Brunk Parson POS 352 October‚ 2012 Exam 1: Hobbes/Locke 1. Compare and contrast Hobbes and Locke on political power? In answering this question explain Locke’s argument against Hobbes’s understanding of “paternal” and despotical power. On the discussion of power and social structure‚ both John Locke and Thomas Hobbes introduce their theories on paternal and despotical power in Second Treatise of Government and Leviathan respectively. Both men believe that social order is constructed
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John Rawls bases his Theory of Justice on the intuitive conviction that justice as fairness is the first virtue of social institutions. He argues that in order to ensure fair distributions of advantages in society‚ a workable set of principles are required in order to determine how institutions ought to distribute rights and duties and to establish a clear way to address competing claims to social advantages. The second principle that Rawls develops stipulates that economic and social inequalities
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JEAN PIAGET and THE FOUR MAJOR STAGES OF COGNITIVE THEORY The patriarch of cognitive theory was Jean Piaget(1896-1980). Piaget was a biologist‚ who became interested in human thinking while working to evaluate the results of child intelligence tests. As Piaget worked he noted the correlation between the child’s age and the type of error they made. Intrigued by the discovery that certain errors occurred predictably at certain age‚ he began to focus his time and energy
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with the statement that the violent and terror filled French revolution was in fact based on the ideas of the Enlightenment. John Locke is one of the most well known philosophers during the Enlightenment. John Locke states that " if a long train of abuses‚ prevarications‚ and artifices‚ all tending the same way‚ make the design visible to the people " Basically‚ John Locke is saying that under major circumstances a community has to unite to start a revolution that would better the nation. Another
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Hobbes vs. Locke: Development and Expansion of Political Thought Comparing and Contrasting Hobbes Leviathan and Locke’s Second Treatise of Government This essay will compare and contrast several of the political theories on natural law‚ the need for government and structure thereof‚ as expressed in Thomas Hobbes’ Leviathan and John Locke’s Second Treatise of Government. Similarities and differences of political theories are found in these two works‚ posing the question of whether Locke’s
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Through years of trials and tribulations‚ the United States of America has maintained its standing as an international power‚ but such achievements do not occur without the aid of visionary individuals. Many have contributed to the success of this great country. However‚ in the last half of the twentieth century‚ when this power was questioned‚ there was one individual who stood above all the others‚ cementing the United States’ dominance‚ and paving the way to the future. Between the Cuban missile
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equality throughout the society. John Locke and Jean Jacques Rousseau both offer different approaches to how a government should be assembled. Locke’s central belief‚ in Second Treatise of Government‚ is that society is set up to protect an individual’s private property right. People enter into a social contract where they give up particular rights to be protected by a common law and there is a common executive power that enforces said law. The common executive power that is set up within the society
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Jean Kilbourne is the producer of the film “Killing Us Softly” made in 2010. Through this documentary‚ Kilbourne argues some important facts of the parlous impact social media has become towards society. One of her mainly points in her speech is how media is mostly unconscious to an individual‚ though it can have a grand impact in his daily life. Kilbourne also compares the different images media has put over man and woman; men are always met to be successful‚ have power‚ and normalcy‚ however women’s
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