Liberty
Essays

This essay discusses the theories of justice by John Rawls, Michael Sandel and Kant. It also contrasts their theories with each other and with libertarian political philosophy. These theories are also contrasted with market economics and inequality of wealth in the contemporary United States. This essay addresses five questions in regard to the various theories and current public policy.

Establishment of a Family in a New Community in Spain

Baxter argues that in order to solve our environmental problems we must recognize that our objective is an optimal state of pollution. Discuss how his optimality condition compares to that used in economics.

Democracies have historically been both valued and unappreciated, as some of the references in Plato's The Republic indicate. However, even criticisms of democracies can ultimately serve to improve them. The two criticisms of democracies considered in this document are the fact that they enable too much civil liberty and that wealth and property taint them.

¶ … civil war on the American economics, military and diplomatic ties. The paper will discuss the effects of the victory of the Unions and the defeat of the Confederates.

Uncle Tom's Cabin - Fiction as a Catalyst for Fact

This is a three page paper. It is about the speech, by Norman Podhoretz, called, "Is America Exceptional?" The speech is available online. The purpose of the paper is to analyze the speech using the parameters of good persuasive arguments, rhetoric, and logical fallacies. Many logical fallacies are present in the speech, and they are discussed here.

Simon Bolivar is often considered to be one of the greatest men in the history of Latin America. During his relatively short lifetime he freed a number of countries from Spanish rule and offered up both military and political victories. With that in mind, this paper takes a look at Bolivar from his early life through his death, and with special attention paid to some of his more notable accomplishments.

Utilitarianism, a philosophy first espoused by Jeremy Bentham, embodies an important set of concepts in that it coincided with the re-thinking of what we know as liberalism. The liberalism of the early 19th century was…

¶ … right to die. The writer uses analytical skills to dissect and argue several right to die cases that have been presented in court in America. The writer discusses the ethics of the practice as well as presents ideas…