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Lockes Volunteer Prison
Locke’s Voluntary Prisoner This thought experiment is that a man is asleep and carried into a room and locked in unknown to him. He is locked in a room with someone he has longed to see and talk with. He awakes and finds himself in good company where he stays willingly. Is the man truly free? Is his stay voluntary? Is the man truly free? According to deep self compatibilism which states that actions are
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On Rousseau: What Is the General Will? Does It in Your View Amount to a Form of Tyranny of the Majority?
On Rousseau: What is the general will? Does it in your view amount to a form of tyranny of the majority? John-Jacques Rousseau was one of many political philosophers to tackle the concepts of human nature and the social contract. But what is interesting about his view is how he tied them to the general will. His idea of the general will became an integral part of his work, and one that he, and many
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Hobbes Homework 1
Michelle Piccolino MPT 2:30pm Homework #2 Lev. Chapters 5-8 January 24, 2017 1. What is Hobbes’ definition of reason? Hobbes’ definition of reason can be found through the following quotation “when man reasoneth, he does nothing else but conceive a sum total, from addition of parcels; or conceive a remainder, from subtraction of one sum from another: which, if it be done by words, is conceiving of the consequence of the names of all the
Rating:Essay Length: 913 Words / 4 PagesSubmitted: March 27, 2017