Mill On Gay Marriage

John Stuart Mill spent much of “The Subjection of Women” discussing the issue of marriage and its flaws. Throughout his work he is well versed and seems to consider himself an informed and knowledgeable writer on this topic. In present times, many of the issues Mill raises against marriage have already been fixed. Women are [...]

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Mill’s “On the Subjection of Women”

“All causes, social and natural, combine to make it unlikely that women should be collectively rebellious to the power of men. They are so far in a position different from all other subject classes, that their masters require something more from them than actual servitude…not a forced slave but a willing one” (Mill, 659). Mill [...]

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Societal Norms, Reverse Subjection?

Mill was focused on the subjection of females, and with the modern world we live in I can’t help but think to some extent there is subjection in the other direction thanks to what society considers normal. Women have made great strides in being able to do jobs which were once considered men only, but [...]

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Is America a Christian Nation?

“Society can and does execute its own mandates; and if it issues wrong mandates instead of right, or any mandates at all in things with which it ought not to meddle, it practices a social tyranny more formidable than many kinds of political oppression, since, though not usually upheld by such extreme penalties, it leaves [...]

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Hobbes vs Locke in Regards to Paying Fines

At my current residence, my landlord issued a warning that he would fine $20 to every apartment in our complex for cleaning up cigarette butts on the sidewalk in front of the entrance to my apartment complex. Cigarette butts are a common thing to find on any sidewalk in a city, but I can understand [...]

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The Sovereign or the People

One of the more important, and basic concepts up for debate is whether the governing body controls the state, or the people being governed. One could assume that the government controls the people who consent to give it power, when that action of consent can also be easily interpreted as a grant of permission. Machiavelli [...]

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Contradictory Arguments

Socrates clearly denies that he is guilty of the charges brought against him, so why does he turn down Crito’s proposal for escape?  In The Apology, Socrates asserts, “hardly anything of what [my accusers] said was true” (17b).  Socrates states his innocence and then the Athenian court pronounces him guilty, so it would appear by [...]

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Socrates knew what he was doing

Why would Socrates want to die? It can’t be because he hates life itself and wishes to abandon it, for he states “one should never do wrong in return, nor do any man harm, no matter what he may have done to you” (49d). By leaving life while he has the chance to live, Socrates [...]

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Obeying an Unjust Regime is Wrong

Is obeying an unjust regime just a false hope that it will eventually work? I think so. If the masses, proletariat, working class (call them whatever) all live under an agreed upon “unjust regime”, then what reasons do they have to follow the governments orders? Blindly obeying the laws of the land is very barbaric. [...]

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