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Mill believes that it is impossible to be a great scientist, without having some feeling and sensitivity about the human condition given by the humanities, and someone learning the classics must understand the functioning of the modern world, to give what he or she is learning some significance.
How do the ideas on education of Locke, Jefferson and Mill relate to one another and to the importance of education for a democratic society such as our own?
Mill's stress upon holistic knowledge is essential for a citizen in a democracy -- today, a citizen must vote an elected official into office who can deal with the scientific complexities of global warming and healthcare, and can comprehend the intricacies of foreign cultures. To judge the knowledge base of our elected officials, citizens must also have a well-rounded basis of knowledge. That is why Thomas Jefferson believed so fervently in the need to educate all Americans in elementary schools, and all white, male Americans who could vote on a higher level, in grammar schools. Although he was very much a man of his time regarding the education...
(Jefferson did believe in the need for some education for non-voters, like women and lower-class, non-property holders, but on a more limited level).
Jefferson's ideal politician was someone who was not a career politician, but entered politics as a respite from his real work. Thus, every citizen, just like in ancient Athens, who needed to be educated enough to serve as a public official. Jefferson's thoughts on education, just like his Declaration of Independence, reflects much of the English Empiricist John Locke's belief in the rights of all individuals to better themselves: Locke conceptualized the human mind as a blank slate, and thus education was necessary to formulate every citizen in body, mind, and character. A well-educated citizen creates a stronger nation because a democratic republic is built upon the decisions and knowledge base of its collective citizenry.
Political action in representative republics has been defined over the course of the last several hundred years by the interpretation of classical and enlightenment principles. Among them are liberty, equality, and justice. These principles, deemed "humanistic" in that they recognize inalienable human rights, are deistic in origin, although their implementation has also relied on contractarian and consequentialist rhetoric. Distributive Justice is the belief that it is within the government's purvue
Human Relation -- A Social Science Perspective Fundamental differences between the social sciences and the natural sciences Science is commonly taken to be an attempt at predicting, understanding, and explaining our world, using distinctive modes of analysis for developing theories. However, defining a collection of attributes that distinguish sciences from religion, fortune telling, astrology and other such disciplines (not categorized under sciences), which also aim at understanding and explaining our world, is
Economics of New Ideas and Innovations This research paper discusses the economics of a new idea. Without new ideas and inventions, the economy might very well become stagnant or decline, as predicted by many early economists, who did not understand that impact that ideas and innovative technology had on global markets. Technology is endogenous in the new growth theory, which holds that technology is a function of the capital and labor used
Wordsworth Poetry has existed as a popular art form for many years. The following discussion will focus on what poetry, poets, and the lyric mean to William Wordsworth as related in his PREFACE to Lyrical Ballads. The research will also connect John Stuart Mills and Roman Jakobson's definitions of poetry to that of Wordsworth. Poetry Poets and Lyric according to Wordsworth William Wordsworth was one of the preeminent poets of the 20th century.
76). As automation increasingly assumes the more mundane and routine aspects of work of all types, Drucker was visionary in his assessment of how decisions would be made in the years to come. "In the future," said Drucker, "it was possible that all employment would be managerial in nature, and we would then have progressed from a society of labor to a society of management" (Witzel, p. 76). The
Even more generally, there are other examples of equally basic contradictions that qualify under the adherence-to- governing-law standard. Despite the official Supreme Court interpretation of the Establishment Clause in the First Constitutional Amendment, U.S. currency still features the words "In God We Trust." Similarly, several states still enforce Sunday blue laws such as prohibiting the sale of alcohol on the Christian "Sabbath." Many legal experts suggest that both violate