History & Political Science

QuestionNature, then, tends to make the bodies of slaves and free people different too, the former strong enough to be used for necessities, the latter useless for that sort of wor...

QuestionNevertheless we are not to understand, that by [the liberty of subjects], the sovereign’s power of life and death is either abolished or limited. For it has already b...

QuestionNo longer can anything but danger to the entire society trouble the tranquil slumber of the philosopher and yank him from his bed. His fellow man may be killed with impunit...

QuestionNow it is easy to see that the moral aspect of love is an artificial sentiment born of social custom, and extolled by women with so much skill and care in order to establis...

QuestionSociety … practices a social tyranny more formidable than many kinds of political oppression, since, though not usually upheld by such extreme penalties, it leaves f...

QuestionThe desires, and other passions of man, are in themselves no sin. No more are the actions, that proceed from those passions, till they know a law that forbids them: which t...

QuestionThe selfish misconception that induces you to transform into eternal laws of nature and reason, the social forms springing from your present mode of production and form of ...

Question“Therefore, as we are made well by hope, so we are made happy by hope; and as we do not presently possess well-being, but look forward to it in the future ‘with...

QuestionThis makes it lawful for a man to kill a thief, who has not in the least hurt him, nor declared any design upon his life, any farther than by the use of force, so to get hi...

Question Prove that when voters are strategic in their voting behavior (no abstention allowed and two or more candidates are competing) then for any voter, voting for his least be...

QuestionKarl Marx and Mikhail Bakunin were important critics of the politics system that emerged in Western Europe in the wake of the French revolution – modern, secular, lib...

Question Write an essay comparing and contrasting the Muslim Brotherhood’s party platform with the major Muslim Brotherhood thinkers. What convergences, divergences, and tra...