Political Philosophy Essays

Throughout the story Theseus learns a great deal of what it is to be a king. Not just any king but a king that is truthful, and loyal to his people, a king that has great leadership skills and can protect his people. Theseus also believed in justice and that is must be carried out. […]

Political Philosophy is the study of important matters related to government, politics, freedom, fairness, ownership, entitlements, laws and the authoritative implementation of legal regulations within a particular system. It involves exploring issues such as their implications and necessity or lack thereof; the legitimacy of government; protection of liberties and rights and the rationale behind it; […]

Born on June 28, 1712 in Geneva, Jean-Jacques Rousseau was an abandoned child who in a lifespan of 66 years, evolved into one of the greatest philosophers of all times and a man who substantially pioneered the great French Revolution with the magic of his writing. He is the man who is responsible for the […]

Credited as one of the laminitis of Western doctrine. he is a puzzling figure known chiefly through the histories of subsequently classical authors. particularly the Hagiographas of his pupils Plato and Xenophon. and the dramas of his modern-day Aristophanes. Many would claim that Plato’s duologues are the most comprehensive histories of Socrates to last from […]

What makes a good society or a good individual? According to Plato, the virtues of justice, wisdom, courage, and moderation are necessary to make a good society. Since Plato’s perspective is exemplified in today’s society and in many other works of fiction, we can derive that there is convincing argument for Plato’s view. Before we […]

John Rawls’ system of justice (Welfare liberalism) is at odds with Robert Nozick’s Classical liberalist position. Argumentatively discuss. There is a variety of perception on economic or distributive justice, material goods and services have no intrinsic value but are valuable only if they are shared. My essay is a critique and argument of John Rawl’s […]

A top Official in a Government Department, who was slow t take decisions and had the habit of keeping case-files pending, had two folders on his table. “Pending Cases and Urgent Pending Cases! ” When no perfect discipline prevails in any area of life, the best option is to carry on with the available discipline. […]

Comparative politics seeks to discover regularities and variations of political organization by comparative analysis of historical and contemporary systems. Having isolated these regularities and variations, it seeks to determine the factors which underlie them, in order to discover the properties and conditions of polities of varying types. It then seeks to reduce these observations to […]

Absolutism and Peter the Great BY dyianl 995 Many monarchs, particularly those of European descent, employed the flourishing absolutist philosophy during their reign in the seventeenth century. Defined as the “absolute or unlimited rule usually by one man,” absolutism is virtually equivalent to the philosophy of despotism. A ruler incorporating the absolutist philosophy has complete […]

Political science is a social science discipline that focuses on the system of government and also studies political activity and behavior within a nation. Therefore, this text extensively addresses the theory and practice of politics as well as the rating of politicians. According to my research proposal, the decline in Obama’s second term rating has […]