... systems, conducted their political systems, set up their social systems, and viewed religion. The economic system of the World State revolved around maximizing consumption of goods. As the hypnopaedic saying goes, "ending is better than mending." In order to support the largest possible economic system, which would support a very large amount of citizens in this new world, people were strongly encouraged ... what social class they will be in rather than being exposed to the greedy capitalistic system that puts people into social classes by natural selection. They are "dumbed-down" to wh...

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... is a more secure and safe way of life in which the people have security and more importantly happiness. Throughout "The Origin of Civil Society," Rousseau goes into great deal of detail regarding slavery and families including the social contracts that go into making a civil state along with the problems of a state of ... living in a civil state, man trades this natural liberty for civil liberty where he can secure property he can claim as his own. Rousseau goes on to explain how man has no security in this state of nature where only the strongest survive. Eventually, even the strongest...

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Gorgias For thousands of years, theologians have debated the idea of the eternal soul, something that separates from the body after death and goes on to exist in whatever comes next, whether it is heaven or anything else. Socrates, living hundreds of years before the Common Era, discusses the idea of a soul with the early orators of Athens, such ... that one's good deeds would later be rewarded. He continues this idealism by redefining politics as something not aimed at gratification but at what is best. In this way, he goes back to the idea of people's souls being much more important than t...

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... described his distrust in citizens when he stated that "...in time of adversity, when the state is in need of it's citizens there are few to be found." Machiavelli further goes on to question the loyalty of the citizens and advises that "...because men are wretched creatures who would not keep their word to you, you need keep your word to ... them." He believed that the ends justified the means, meaning that a person had to use whatever attainable methods to achieve their goal. However, Machiavelli did not feel that a Prince should mistreat the citizens, this suggestion once again to se...

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... their lives as they please. Perhaps this is the reason why the United States is so popular. Many can only dream about coming to the United States, and will do whatever it takes to get here. For instance, earlier this year, in my Spanish III class, we viewed a film called "El Norte." It was about two siblings from Guatemala that desired ... allow any sense of personal growth or achievement. There is no freedom to be different from anyone else. We are who we are. Trying to mimic the lives of everyone goes against the very nature of our existence. Forms of leadership stressing complete equ...

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... advice a chapter. He writes in one chapter that a prince should be well versed in war and in another that he should know when and when not to be generous. He goes on to talk about why it is safer to be feared than to be loved. His views on these subjects, though not accepted by everyone at the time, were the ... likely gave what he could to the public, for he knew what it was like not having very much. What he gave was not very much, though, because he knew whatever he did give, he would not have for a situation when he might need it. And to wait for someone else to be generous towards ...

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