The Hunger Games and Hobbes

Thomas Hobbes was a philosopher from England; he thought up this idea of the 'state of nature.' In his book Leviathan he present the state of nature is the lack of authority, "without a common power to keep them in awe," and the lack of laws there is always going to be a perpetual state of war, "they are in that condition which is called war," and in these wars there is only to be the fittest alive in the end, "and such a war as is of every man against every man."

Also in Hobbes' state of nature statement he says there is no moral stature or right and wrong justice, "the notions of right and wrong, justice and injustice, have there no place."He said that because "... there is no common power, there is no law; where no law, no injustice." Meaning that because there is no moral duty and no right and wrong it is, in a way, acceptable. 

Thomas Hobbes

The Hunger Games can be argued on if it is an example of Hobbes' theory or not. I believe that the Games themselves can't support his theories. Between the tributes inside the Games it is an example because they have no authority, no laws, and are suppose to not have any morals so there can be only one victor. But all is fun in love and games, simply because they aren't fully like that. The tributes make alliances, some think they are above the rest, others like Katniss, actually have the concept of right and wrong, and knowing that this act of entertainment is wrong.

But the tributes aren't the only thing part of the Games. The Gamemakers make the Games a structured event, and are able to change the things around the tributes whenever they want. At one point Katniss was walking closer to the edge of the arena, so they built a wall of fire to push her back towards the other tributes.

Katniss Everdeen

Also, when they made the mutant dog to push them to fight with Cato at the end of the Games. 

Lastly to prove that The Hunger Games isn't an 

Katniss running from fire  Peeta fighting Cato

example of Hobbes' ideas, on the outside the tributes had mentors to guide them through the Games. They would gussy them up and parade them out to get sponsors. The sponsors are Capitol people and people in the districts that can get money to send things to the tributes in the arena for them to survive. 

The Art Behind Comedy

Henri Bergson came up with this idea that comedy makes antisocial situations funny and promotes moral values. An example of this is the show American Dad. In the show there is a character named Rodger. He is an alien who is suppose to be a bisexual, racist, schizophrenic because he dresses up as so many different people, he makes fun of every race, and even though he would go out with a women he prefers to make fun of the gay guys he sleeps with as well. this goes to Henri's idea because laughing at Rodgers character shows the immoral values that shouldn't be adopted into reality.

American Dad

Thanksgiving and Philosophy

Aristotle's Friendships

Aristotle had different ideas on what friendships really are. He said there were utility friends, who only are friendly when they want something and they know that they can get it; pleasurable friends, who are friends that only are there to get their own personal pleasure from it; and perfect friends, who are people that both get mutual benefits from the friendship.

Back in Peabody I had a best friend, he was the most caring person in my school and everybody was friends with him. Most of his friendships were the pleasurable friendships whether it was on his behalf or the others. But when we became friends we had nothing special to give each other to make it one sided or not. All we did when we were together was talk about what we wanted to do in life. After we shared our life accomplishing goals with one another we helped each other try and reach those goals. We kept each other on track of what we needed to do, what we couldn't do that would risk everything we already had going for us. I am thankful for having this friendship because he kept me looking forward to achieving my goal in life, and to not do anything to distract me from it. We both leaned on each other for support and stability against the troubles in our family or in our friends. It shocked me how it happened because we were completely different at first and had close to nothing in common. It was like we were a cat and a dog but we were able to withstand each other and their flaws.

Cat&Dog Friends4ever

My Hogwarts House

Ravenclaw

If I were going to Hogwarts the sorting hat would decide that I would best fit in the house of Ravenclaw. In Ravenclaw they are smart, wise, creative, and intelligent,. The traits I mostly show are the creativity, the kindness, and being smart. I believe I'm creative because I am able to make up my own dances and I am able to do a lot of artistic things that not a lot of people can do. I'm smart because even though I don't really apply myself to do the work for school I still get fairly good grades otherwise. I'm kind by smiling to people in the halls I get told I have a bubbly spirit and that makes me want to be a better person to people.

anime Ravenclaw

Kierkegaard's Stages

Kierkegaard said that aesthetes think they are completely free and don't have any commitment or desires, they just live with their own rules. The person in the ethical stage think that the aesthetes aren't really free because they always go by their impulses. This can be seen in the movie Journey To The Mysterious Island. In this movie the main character Sean gets a message in Morse Code from his grandfather from an undiscovered island with mysterious species on it. He thinks he can break into this building to translate the message because in the previous movie he was famous for going to the center of the earth with his uncle. Sean gets caught and his step-dad, Hank, thinks he should do something productive with his life and not think of these fantasies. Hank translates the message and they find out that the island does exists. Sean thinks he can just drop everything an go but he still has school, while Hank is the realist and says Sean needs to stay and go to school. In this situation Hank is the person in the ethical stage and Sean is the aesthete. Hank wanted Sean to get a real education and be successful and Sean wanting to go out and be an explorer like his grandfather uncle and dad.

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Civil Duty

One hot summer day it was possibly 92 degrees outside. I was on my way home but I had like two more miles to walk home. I was tired and thirsty so I just wanted to get home and rest. On my way I saw a bike that was just sitting there without any lock. It was nice and yellow, it had a rack on the back to hold my backpack, so I debated on taking it so I could get home faster. I would be able to get a drink, and get food. But I knew it was wrong, so I didn't take it I sucked up the next two miles. And it was a bike too like a fast on that doesn't take much effort to go fast. Immanuel Kant thought of the term Categorical Imperative, it's pretty much when you do things that you think you would want other people to do. Kant would think that in this situation the Categorical Imperative would be if I wanted people to just take my bike if I left it unlocked.

This is a bike

Character types

Virtuous people are the people who do kind things everyday without question and taking joy from doing so. There are possibly thousands of virtuous people in this world but one that stands out to me is Jared Leto, the lead singer of 30 Seconds To Mars. He has gone many places like Africa, Indonesia, Thailand, and many more third world countries, and has donated thousands of dollars to a variety of charities to stop diseases, end child hunger across america, and to NoH8 LGBT. Jared takes joy from helping people and he lives off the support of his fans. Everyday he thanks his fans for supporting his music by giving back to the helpless.

Continent characters in life are people who does the right thing in the end but while doing it thinks about the benefits of the wrong thing. A person that I know personally that is a continent character is my former best friend. He is the kind of person that will weigh out the pros and cons of both the right and the wrong thing. He is a good person because he always goes for the right thing instead of the wrong one but every now and then he lets his inner conflicts get the best of him, so he goes and does the wrong thing, but he morally questions himself the whole time.

Incontinent people know the right and wrong aspect of life, but they struggle to stay good. Sadly they eventually slip into the acts of evil. Draco Malfoy from Harry Potter is an excellent example of an incontinent character. He knows that being mean to Harry and being a Death Eater is not the best idea but because his mom and dad are Death Eaters he slipped away down the road of following in Voldemort’s footsteps.

Vicious type of people that don’t think about the rightful or moral way, they know they are doing the wrong thing in life but yet they do it with a smile on their face. There are many people out there that are just down right terrible, one that is extra terrible in my opinion is Adolf Hitler. He is vicious but he thought he was doing mankind a favor by exterminating all the Jews. Hitler believed that if he killed off he Jewish religion race that he was saving the world of what he called ignorant, sloppy, and vial creatures. Because he thought he was doing good for the world as a dictator he was happy in doing the wrong thing due to the fact that he though it was the right thing.


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