John Locke’s Diary January, 1863 Today is January 1st, today was probably the worst day of my life, it has been a year since my last entry, as usual, I have been to many battles with many different horses, I have few horses of my own left, and I will soon have to purchase them from others, or else I will have to join the infantry. Today I was at home, my wife was tending to my wounds, I had been shot in the leg in my last battle, and I am lucky to be breathing right now. It took a great deal of money to get the medicine for my leg, so that it would not get infected, but it was a good thing I had my slaves working on my plantation earning me more money, but that is exactly why January 1st, was the worst day of my life. The Emancipation Proclamation had been signed, which not only stated that all slaves are free, but that they may join in the fight against the Confederacy, and all the slaves who are now free will …show more content…
I was worried sick that day that I would lose everything I have. I hired guards to watch over my slaves to make sure they don't try to run anywhere, and I ordered them to hunt down and kill any slaves that try to run away. On January 4th, I heard that the Union had seized the Mercury, one our blockade runners, but on the next day, January 5th, we the Confederated surrounded the Union force at Jonesville and took 200 prisoners from the battle, this was good news, and I was happy to hear it after a long time with only bad news. But on January 11th, bad news started to rain in again. I received news regarding the battle of Fort Hindman, we lost 5,000 men, and we also lost Fort Hindman, we were attacked by the Union Navy and infantry, the Union had nearly ten times more men than us, and after the Confederate army stationed at the fort lost its artillery and outer
My name Ja’Caree Norton in I’m a Union soldier that fought in many battles in the Civil War,Most say I’m lucky to survive all the battles I attended.. I believe slavery was cruel,Tell me this Do you think one man or woman should have the right to own another?I will never believe in that non-sense,God did not put us on this planet to own each other in worse kill each other.I fought in many battles even the battle of Shiloh.It was a two day battle that began on April 6,1862 near the southern Tennesssee church from which the bloody clash takes its name.
mine. He believes that war should not be used unless it’s the last possible option we
Locke had a very different feeling than did Hobbes about government. Locke felt that there should not be a monarch to rule people. He felt that citizens should be heard, there should more of a chance for common people to have a choice in the way their country is run. He thinks that a republic is the best choice. In document eight Immanuel Kant supports Locke’s idea because he said, “‘Have the courage to use your own reason...' nature has long since discharged them from external direction, nevertheless remains under lifelong tutelage…”What Kant meant by that is that even after people were set free from monarchy they still felt and acted as if they still had no say in anything and that they were afraid to speak their mind.
Could you imagine a world with no freedom, choice of religion, and equality? I’m guessing your answer would be no. Thanks to the 17th to 18th century philosophers, they introduced these ideas to the world to make it an overall better place. There were four enlightenment philosophers and their names were John Locke, Voltaire, Adam Smith, and Mary Wollstonecraft. The philosophers all had different goals but had the same perspective and that was to make the world a better place.
With the exception of Native Americans, there is no race of people that originated in America. Yet today, we all come together under the colors of red, white and blue, sing the National Anthem and call ourselves "Americans". Despite our differences in religion, norms, values, national origins, our pasts, and our creeds, we all combine under one common denominator. Alain Locke addresses this issue of cultural pluralism in his article, "Who and What is `Negro'?" In this article, Locke states that, "There is, in brief, no `The Negro'. " By this, he means that blacks are not a uniform and unchanging body of people. He emphasizes that we, as Americans, need to mentally mature to a point where we do not view
In John Locke’s The Second Treatise of Civil Government, Locke discusses what the moral state of nature is and rejects the idea of a “divine right of kings.” John Locke was a product of the best schools in England and had a heavy impact on Western thought through his writings. As a Christ Church graduate, Locke largely discusses in his writings the state of nature, the concept of natural property and retributive punishment when these laws are violated.
The Declaration of Independence was written on July 4, 1776 and is one of the most influential documents in the history of America. This document helped define America’s values and what helped it become the land of the free. Our founding fathers formed this declaration to proclaim to the colonies that we would be fighting for our independence. This document explains the logic behind all 56 signers of the Declaration and why the colonies will fight for their independence. There are in total five parts to this proclamation that are thoroughly explained to inform the colonies and the people of the United States why we will be continuing this battle for our freedom. In the Declaration of Independence the founding fathers provided step by step logic
When people decided to gather, communicate, and cooperate to make their livings around beasts, they also had to decide the ownerships of trophies. That was the time when the idea “property” was invented. Many wise men in the past, while thinking about a better format for people living together, argued meanings of property to people. British philosopher John Locke in his work Second Treatise of Government separates property as public goods shared by all humans and necessities for living created via labor. The value of property has changed over time, when later French philosopher Voltaire in his novel Candide, or Optimism expresses that property becomes for what people in a world where Candide lives keep fighting: land, gold, and even ownerships of women. Necessities and public goods becomes luxuries. Voltaire’s work shows this trend and it can explained by the worry about the risk of losing current living standard in the future when easily accessible things are no more available to everyone. In fact, Candide also reflects scarcity of property, a nature which Locke never mentioned. Thus Candide is a strong critique to Second Treatise of Government for the nature of property when Voltaire demonstrated scarcity in material and philosophical ways in Candide.
As I was walking home on the newly paved cement sidewalk, I heard two people talking about the war and how the first battle between the union and the confederates has started. The only thing I could think of was my father fighting. So I told myself that everything would be alright.
It was was on November 12, 1864 that I first saw the glow of destruction. Sherman was burning a path to Savanna to break the will of the South and end the war. I let it happen because they were mostly leaving the people alone; and also this war was wearing down heavily on me and I wished it to be over soon. I did nothing until Sherman decided to burn all of Atlanta. I watched people flee as the soldiers lit up the night with burning buildings. I sprung into to action to guide people out of the
I sent my men into battle right after that because we were right in the sights of their cannons artillery so we had to move. One by one though my men were being shot or blown up by the Union soldiers and I felt helpless to do anything. You will never know what it's like to lead a man to his own grave by one of your own mistakes. The battle had gone on for three days and my men were badly wounded and outnumbered. I was facing the fact that this could be one of my first major losses of the General of the Confederates and this little fact was driving me crazy. We fought as hard and long as we could, but there was just too many of them and we began to get overrun. We eventually were and I had to surrender my army to the Union. From that point on I was a changed man, I couldn't look my men in the face without feeling the self-pity of my mistake. I laid awake at night thinking about how It was my fault that over 250,000 men were led to their death without them knowing it. That fact killed me on the inside and every time I saw my men after we surrendered, it was like a giant weight was put on my chest. I could never go back to the way I was before the battle of
This is my first journal entry in the month of December. I had written one in January, like usual, but I lost it while in battle. In this entry I will try to remember the big events this year as well I can. On January 31st, I read somewhere that the United States Congress had approved the now Thirteenth Amendment to the constitution. This Amendment was the end of my life as I knew it. It ended slavery, set them all free, no matter the reason. On February 3rd, the Union President Lincoln, and the Confederate Vice President Alexander Stephens, had a meeting, to discuss a possible peace treaty, to finally end the war. As I had assumed at the time, the treaty was never made, both the sides could not agree on one
John Locke was perhaps one of the most influential political philosophers of the modern period. In the Second Treatise of Government, John Locke discusses the move from a state of nature and perfect freedom to a then governed society in which authority is given to a legislative and executive power. His major ideas included liberalism and capitalism, state of nature, state of war and the desire to protect one’s property.
John Locke was an English writer, and his writings were based on the events that took place during the Glorious Revolution in England in 1689, when the people of England overthrew King James II. John Locke was interestingly enough, brought up in a loyalist and Evangelical family. He was born to a very wealthy family, and received much prestige in Oxford for his connections to the higher ups. Locke presented his ideas of rebellion during the English civil war which took place in the mid-1600s, in favor of the revolts against the King’s rule in England at the time. John Locke graduated with a degree in medicine from Oxford University.
It was the Founding Fathers’ view of power that led them to declare their independence from Britain. When the French and Indian War ended, Britain gained a large amount of territory which costed a large sum of money to defend from trespassers. Consequently, Parliament started to tax the colonists without their consent. This unbalance of power caused tensions between Britain and the original 13 colonies. Therefore, the Founding Fathers decided that power should be distributed equally amongst the people and that government should be limited. These views were only strengthened when John Locke wrote “The Second Treatise of Civil Government”, which discussed natural rights, consent of the governed, and limited government. Many of the ideas of John Locke were widely accepted and used by the Founding Fathers, specifically Thomas Jefferson. In the Declaration of independence, Jefferson altered Locke’s phrase “life, liberty, and property” into “life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness”. These three ideas of Locke exist to this day in American political culture. Liberty is at the core of American values, some individuals quote Patrick Henry who said, “Give me liberty, or give me death” in the Revolutionary War. This famous statement of the Revolutionary War reflects that if there is no freedom (liberty) to choose or express oneself, then there is no purpose to living a life where one is not in control of their destiny. The second ideal, consent of the governed, describes how