The Fundamental Principle Of A Republic By Anna Howard Shaw

Book II of The Republic by Plato showcases the two very different views of Socrates and Glaucon in regards to the account of nature and origin of justice. Socrates and Glaucon discuss the theory presented by Glaucon that states that injustice is something that is intrinsically desired by all humans. Glaucon presents this argument to Socrates in order to understand and defend justice for its own sake. Glaucon seeks reassurance from Socrates that justice is not just only good for the positive consequences that it produces, so he asks Socrates to explain that justice is desirable for its own sake and, additionally, the consequences that it provides. In the defense of justice, Socrates begins to explain that justice is a virtue that needs to be found in the individual as well as the state. Socrates believes that true happiness can only exist with a true set of virtues that are justice and respectable morals. Socrates’ assumption is on the fact that a man committing unjust actions will never be able to have complete satisfaction with his life if he has achieved everything through unjust actions because he cannot fully claim his accomplishments. Through examination of the assumptions of both arguments presented, Glaucon’s opinion on justice is superior to the views of Socrates. Glaucon’s presumptuous claim that humans are innately greedy is able to provide an understanding that justice is only a social contract for the weaker people of society by handicapping the strength of the

In 1873 Susan B. Anthony delivered her women's right to suffrage speech after being arrested and fined for voting in the election. This speech shows how brave she was and how much she believed in women’s rights.

Jane Addams once posed the question “Why is it that women do not vote upon the matters which concern them so intimately?” The answer is that, firstly by law women were not allowed to vote on any matter, and secondly, society did not build a supportive, empowering foundation to encourage women to make their own decisions. Susan B. Anthony recognized that even law the uses gender to discriminate against women’s rights; this oppression was established in the 14th amendment of the U.S. Constitution. Both Jane Addams and Anthony both acknowledged this divide between the sexes, and noted that it was prominent in the U.S. government. These ideas influenced the people leading the anti-imperialist movement as well; a structure established in politics and social culture naturally affected the political and social anti-imperialist

The battle of women’s suffrage in the United States can best be represented by Susan B. Anthony speech of 1873

Susan B. Anthony, a catalyst for women’s rights in the late 1800’s, drives a speech on Women’s Right to Vote (Fall of 1872) that argues against the oligarchy of sex that denies women their certain inalienable rights. Anthony develops her argument against the establishment by stating her case that she is indeed not guilty of any crime, but exercised her right as an American citizen to vote for our Presidential leader, as well as reciting the preamble of the Federal Constitution to back her argument. The purpose in which is to fight against the laws that hinder her ability as a citizen of the United States of America. Anthony is driving this speech to anyone who will listen, as she says “ Friends and fellow citizens,” and stand with her in the cause for women’s rights.

In 1848, Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton set up a meeting in Seneca Falls, New York to discuss their rights as women. In this meeting, they discussed that their rights is as important as men are and they shouldn’t have to fight for basic rights such as the right to vote. This was simply the beginning of the women’s suffrage movement in the United States. In the keynote address at the first Women’s Rights Convention, Elizabeth Cady Stanton uses concrete detail and diction to persuade her audience that they need to fight for equal rights, to have an equal voice. Demanding the freedom and representation that women utterly deserve.

The “Declaration of Sentiments” by Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott stated that all men and women were created equal, therefore they both should have the inalienable rights of “life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness” (Doc 1). Since both women and men were created equal, the idea of suffrage should be of one for all, not subjected to only white, Anglo-Saxon males. These inalienable rights of liberty should pertain to the right to vote. Additionally, it was questioned that since women were able to take care of their families, loving and guiding their children, why were they not allowed the freedom to vote (Doc 6). This poem by Herman Paley discussed the idea of how various women throughout history “gave” the United States their leaders, then they should also have the right to

In June of 1915, the United States is fighting World War One in Europe, while women, including Anna Howard Shaw, continue to fight for suffrage rights at home. As the war rages on, women commit to their suffrage movements by giving speeches and marching in parades. On June 21, Shaw persuasively speaks to the people of New York at an equal suffrage campaign as they prepare to vote on a law concerning women’s suffrage rights. She intends to give evidence to her listeners and persuade them to support the women of New York and eventually all of the women in America, to vote. Shaw uses “The Fundamental Principles of a Republic” to prove the true purpose of the women 's suffrage movement, expose the illogical arguments of her opposition, and to convince all of her listeners (the male voters of New York) to vote for women’s right to vote through logical and rational arguments.

The fact that women couldn't vote should that were unspoken flaws in the constitution. The women's strife changed the women's were thought off from there on. The women of america stand up to fix the discrimination against and prove themselves more than the stereotype. Even today the gender gap between men and women aren’t closed but women's have came a long way, for example, women can work the same jobs as men, have the same education, and if these milestones got its first major jump from the women's movement and reforms in the 1920’s and even leading up the women's winning

In his text, The Republic, Plato leads us through an elaborate thought experiment in which he creates the ideal city. Throughout The Republic Plato constructs the laws and societal structures of what he deems will lead to a high functioning society. He names this city Kallipolis. A cornerstone of Kallipolis’ structure is Plato’s principle of specialization. The Principle of Specialization argues that each member of society must do the job in which he is best suited. Plato explains “The result, then, is that more plentiful and better-quality goods are more easily produced if each person does one thing for which he is naturally suited, does it at the right time, and is released from having to do any of the others.” (Plato, 370c) Therefore,

Philosophy is a Greek word meaning "love of wisdom." Throughout Plato's Republic, wisdom plays an important role. According to Plato, education is wisdom and all of our knowledge is not acquiring information, but remembering it from the past. He felt that wisdom is a skill that comes to us naturally as we are just removing the veil of ignorance. His search for the true meaning of justice leads to a discussion with his peers of education and what part it should play in the ideal state that they have developed. He feels everyone has to be willing to learn and have courage in order to acquire knowledge. Glaucon challenges Plato to "praise justice as a good of that kind...because of its very self...and how injustice harms [them]"

This week I learn of the many tactics that Putnam uses in his book called Making Democracy Work. In this work he talks about a specific case in Italy where there is a stark difference between the north side of Italy and conversely the southern side of it. The northern side tended to be more wealthier and developed republics that had systems of horizontal networks while the southern side tended to be an eyesore for Italy with it being the more poorer under a monarchical system that had a vertical network. He notes this by commenting the different historical, cultural, and political stories that they had with them. As a result from the differences, the Italian government gave more control to regional governments because beforehand the state had more of a big government system, there was no regional governments except for autonomous regions in the 1950s. From these unique sequences of events, Putnam makes his case for experimenting the regional governments on the basis of democracies can form in this regional governments and if not how bad can corruption and or dysfunctionality can happen.

President James Garfield’s tragic death is brought to new life in the book The Destiny of the Republic. Author Candice Millard shows readers just how that very incident brought one nation together. This being in the middle of the Gilded Age, at times it looked like the nation had everything under its belt but in reality, people didn’t see the corrupt happenings at that time. Through poverty, war, a surprising turn in events, to downright failure in medicine, President Garfield’s life was a downward spiral and he wasn’t even aware. As much as Garfield was unaware of that, Americans at the time were unaware that they were slowly beginning to unite over the ignorance of both Doctor Bliss and Charles Guiteau. Millard didn’t just write a book of a detailed and historic biography, she wrote somewhat effortlessly of the personal yet challenging circumstances Garfield and his family were in and simply told a story.

Ignorant women are not so ignorant after all. Women in the United States fought for over twenty years, from 1895 to 1915, for women’s suffrage. Women never gave up and showed their strength by overcoming any obstacle that tried to stop them from voting. Anna Howard Shaw was a one of the leaders of the women’s suffrage movement in the United States. On June 21, 1915 Shaw was the voice of the American woman and gave a speech to the men of New York before Election Day in November. In “The Fundamental Principle of a Republic” the rhetorical principles of ethos, anecdote, and hypophora are utilized to persuade the men of New York that women have the right to vote.

In Book I, Rousseau begins Section I by saying that a man supposedly thinks he can do whatever he chooses to do as he is born with unlimited opportunities into the land of freedom (pg 56). However, this isn’t entirely true because the man is actually shackled by the law in reality. In fact, he will always have to follow a set standard of rules and regulations which has already been made by today’s civil society. The man doesn’t have much choice but to obey the laws like everyone else if he doesn’t want to get himself into deep trouble with the law in the state of nature. In Section II, it states that the only natural form of authority is the kind where it involves a family (pg 56-57). The child is dependent on the parents because he needs tender, love, and care from them until he grows