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Tag Archives: legislation
Politics
Photo Credit: The New Zealand Observer, work initialled “BLO” In Book III Chapter 9 of Politics, Aristotle concludes that: Political society exists for the sake of noble actions. But is this what we think of when we hear the word … Continue reading
Posted in Classical/Enlightenment Thoughts, Education
Tagged Aristotle, constitution, economics, economy, government, law, legislation, philosophy, Plato, politics, society, Socrates, The Republic
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Democracy
Photo Credit: Fred Gildersleeve (1881-1958) Why is democracy the ideal form of government?: Because otherwise — to use the philosopher Montesquieu’s phrase from The Spirit of Laws — “the life and liberty of the subject would be exposed to arbitrary … Continue reading
Posted in Classical/Enlightenment Thoughts, Social Studies
Tagged democracy, enlightenment, freedom, government, law, legislation, Montesquieu, politics, reason, reform, Rousseau, society, virtue
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Objectives
Photo Credit: Dawn Endico Why do we go to school?: To learn skills that will help us succeed in life. And after one has “completed his or her education”, what does one have to do for the rest of his … Continue reading
The Social Contract
In CHAPTER VIII: “Of The Beginning of Political Societies” of John Locke’s Second Treatise of Government, he explains that: Sec. 95. MEN being, as has been said, by nature, all free, equal, and independent, no one can be put out … Continue reading
Posted in Classical/Enlightenment Thoughts, Education, Social Studies
Tagged Aristotle, government, happiness, Kant, law, legislation, Locke, politics, Rousseau, society
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Young
Photo Credit: Ric Manning On January 27, 1973, the Paris Peace Accords on “Ending the War and Restoring Peace in Vietnam” was signed — even though South Vietnamese President Nguyen Van Thieu had demanded changes to it which could not … Continue reading
Posted in Education, Social Studies
Tagged 1960s, counterculture, government, history, legislation, social media, society, Vietnam War, youth
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