Understanding Political Authority: A Study of Legitimacy and Power Dynamics
Essay - 14 pages - Politic philosophy
Discover the intricacies of political authority and its relationship with power, legitimacy, and public perception. Understand how authority is exercised, maintained, and sometimes lost, through the lens of philosophers like Plato and Diderot. Learn how effective communication, experience, and...
State of Exception and Democracy
Essay - 5 pages - Politic philosophy
This dissertation explores the concept of the state of exception and its implications on democracy, individual rights, and freedoms, examining the balance between authoritarian force and liberty.
Locke's Letter on Toleration: Church and State
Text commentary - 3 pages - Politic philosophy
Analysis of John Locke's Letter on Toleration, discussing the separation of church and state, and the role of tolerance in achieving peace.
Living Together with Discrimination and Equal Claims
Essay - 3 pages - Politic philosophy
This philosophical text explores the concept of living together in a society with discrimination and the importance of equal claims, discussing the democratic ideal, obedience to laws, and the role of education and culture.
Stateless Individuals and Human Rights
Text commentary - 6 pages - Politic philosophy
The text discusses the marginalization of stateless individuals and the failure of the global political system to protect them, highlighting the importance of legal frameworks in ensuring human dignity.
Reducing Workweek to 15 Hours: A Virtuous Circle
Creative writing - 4 pages - Politic philosophy
A proposal to gradually reduce the workweek to 15 hours, promoting leisure, equality, and democratic participation, while maintaining productivity and economic growth.
Rousseau's Political Philosophy and Peace in Africa
Thesis - 26 pages - Politic philosophy
This academic document explores the relevance of Rousseau's political philosophy to conflict resolution and peace in Africa, examining the concept of contestation and its implications for social antagonisms and political crises on the continent.
The Encyclopedia's Critique of Absolute Monarchy and Political Authority
Text commentary - 2 pages - Politic philosophy
Discover the groundbreaking insights of The Encyclopedia, a pioneering publication by Denis Diderot and Jean Le Rond d'Alembert, released between 1751 and 1772. This influential work not only compiled practical knowledge but also challenged the status quo by critically examining the...
Hayek on Economic Planning and Democracy
Text commentary - 7 pages - Politic philosophy
Friedrich A. Hayek's critique of economic planning and its impact on individual liberty and democracy in 'The Road to Serfdom'.
Pluralism and Freedom: Multiple Concepts
Essay - 2 pages - Politic philosophy
This document explores the concept of pluralism in relation to freedom, discussing various interpretations and philosophies, including liberalism and the ideas of Karl Marx and Isaiah Berlin.
Human Rights and Democracy
Text commentary - 3 pages - Politic philosophy
Analysis of the link between the Declaration of Human Rights and the rise of democracy by Claude Lefort.
The Hatred of Democracy: A Critique of Interference and Colonialism
Book review - 1 pages - Politic philosophy
In 'From victorious democracy to criminal democracy', Jacques Rancière critiques the notion of democracy being imposed through interference, highlighting the paradox of invasion leading to chaos and the rise of totalitarian systems. Explore the historical roots of this phenomenon and the...
Is liberal democratic peace theory dead?
Essay - 4 pages - Politic philosophy
Democratic peace theory, which postulates that democracies tend to avoid conflict with each other, has long been a cornerstone of international relations thinking. However, as the world evolves, some voices are being raised to question the validity of this theory. This essay therefore explores...
How is the Asian continent imprinting its mark on the western concept of knowledge/power nexus?
Essay - 7 pages - Politic philosophy
The connection between power and knowledge stems from Michel Foucault's well-known thesis that power inspires and shapes knowledge. Overall, this concept coming from a group of French geopolitics pundits claims that power is not necessarily tangible power, according to them, power is in the...
Perpetual Peace: A Philosophical Sketch - Emmanuel Kant (1795) - Measures to ensure the cessation of hostilities between states
Text commentary - 3 pages - Politic philosophy
Kant is optimistic and believes that perpetual peace between nations is possible and will be attained in the future. He sees peace as a gradual process. Therefore, he describes a peace program constructed in 2 parts : 6 preliminary articles listing the steps that should be taken immediately by...
How do artists use their work as political statements?
Essay - 2 pages - Politic philosophy
Art has, for a very long time, been a way for artists to express their opinions or political beliefs. Offering artists a means to voice their opinions and often criticise social norms, Art is therefore an advocate for change. Through various forms such as literature, film, music, and visual arts,...
The Idea of Progress - Is a Sweeping Political Change Way of Progress?
Essay - 2 pages - Politic philosophy
The notion I'm going to deal with is the idea of progress. To begin, the progress basically implies changes and evolution from an old order to the new order, in different fields of society in order to enable people to have a better life. In terms of politics, the idea that all citizens should...
Introduction to scientific humanities, an historical perspective:Case study
Case study - 5 pages - Politic philosophy
“[The book] revolutionized the study of Natural History, and carried away captive the best men of the… age”1—such were the words that the co-discoverer of the theory of natural selection, Alfred Russel Wallace, used to describe Charles Darwin's seminal work On the Origin of...
Introduction to scientific humanities: An historical perspective
Case study - 2 pages - Politic philosophy
“Animals are bodies and their vital operations are either movements or actions which require movements. But bodies and movements are the subject of Mathematics. Such a scientific approach is exactly Geometry. Similarly, the operations of animals are carried out using instruments and...
On just war
Case study - 7 pages - Politic philosophy
When, in the sacred Hindu text the Bhagavad Gita, Prince Arjuna asks Lord Krishna about the righteousness of his participation in a war that would entail him killing his cousins, Lord Krishna explains to him that it is his duty as a warrior to take up this role, and that he should do it as best...
The corrosion of character: The personal consequences of work in the new capitalism
Case study - 2 pages - Politic philosophy
The text we have is extracted from a book written by Richard Sennett in 1998 about new capitalism and its consequences on work and on personal lives. In this extract we have two chapters of the book. The first chapter, called “Drift”, is based on a true story of a family to show that...
Do we live better than our parents used to?
Case study - 15 pages - Politic philosophy
Our parents, born during The Glorious Thirty, lived the first years of their life in a society still untouched by oil crisis, very prosperous but so rigid and socially unfair. They grew up with the appearance and early spread of HIV, and lived in the uncertainties caused by the Cold War…...
Decolonization
Case study - 3 pages - Politic philosophy
India was Britain's first colony to be decolonized, in 1947, for a multitude of reasons. First of all, Britain had promised India, before the war began a transfer of power, to make the sub-continent more independent. Furthermore, Britain had already started an “Indianization” of the...
John Dunn and Locke's concept of State
Essay - 4 pages - Politic philosophy
John Locke, who was born in 1632, and died in 1704, was an English philosopher, a philosopher of the Enlightenment. His political theories founded what is called "liberalism". In his political theory, Locke is concerned with concepts that are specific, for example: the natural law, property,...
Should gay marriage be legalized?
Presentation - 13 pages - Politic philosophy
-5 countries in Europe have legalized gay marriage -Some, like France, put forward other types of partnerships -Others forbid any type of partnerships between gay people -Most states ban same-sex marriage -The issue is discussed in some specific cases -A few states have legalized same-sex marriage
WEB. Dubois vs. Booker T. Washington, who had it right?
Essay - 6 pages - Politic philosophy
W.E.B Dubois and Booker T. Washington were two great leaders of the African American community back in the late 19th and early 20th centuries who sharply disagreed on strategies to ensure black social and economic rights and progress following the era of radical "Reconstruction". Born a slave in...
"In twenty years' time, nobody will write letters" - publié le 09/12/2010
Thesis - 1 pages - Politic philosophy
The advance of technology is more and more progressing. We use less paper and pen to communicate; these tools have been replaced by new technologies such as SMS or email. We can ask ourselves if in twenty years we will write letters. We'll see in the first part the advanced techniques which...
Social Responsibilities of business in a Free-enterprise system
Thesis - 5 pages - Politic philosophy
Ethics appeared during the Antiquity with the Greek philosophers. Aristotle declared “all human activity aim at some good, and the good which is chosen for its own sake rather than as means to an end is the highest good”. During the Age of Enlightenment, ethics was considered as an...
"The Prince", Machiavel - How to purchase and keep a state
Book review - 1 pages - Politic philosophy
The Prince, is a sulphurous work published in 1513. It is condemned by every authors except Jean-Jacques Rousseau who is defended it modestly. This text is deeply rooted in political crises which take place in Firenze at the turn of the XVe and XVIe century. As a result the redaction of the...
Human rights philosophy
Essay - 9 pages - Politic philosophy
The universality of human rights has been frequently questioned since the creation of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) in 1948. The traditional concept of Human Rights is implied within a theory of moral universalism, as it believes in the absolute existence of a common, natural...
