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Throughout the course of human history many individuals have come forth claiming to know the truth about life.  They claim to know why we are here, what our end goals are and where we are ultimately heading.  The philosopher George Wilhelm Hegel (1770-1831) is one of those people. “Freedom is for itself the goal to be achieved and the only goal of Spirit” (Hegel, 22). Hegel saw human development through history which was guided to freedom through Spirit, in doing so he identified the importance of individuals, the role of the State and the role of freedom.

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The current laws prohibiting the use of marijuana creates criminals out of law abiding citizens and the laws need to be changed. It is clear that the majority of Americans support this change and it is time for prohibition to end.  Not only is Marijuana prohibition costly, but it is also morally objectionable. Government agents close down small businesses, raid family farms, arrest non-violent “criminals” and perpetuate a myth of dangers associated with Marijuana.

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The philosophical arguments that Wittgenstein discusses are based in the subtleties of language.  He illustrates his point by using language games.  These games are used to make the argument that the philosophical problems that philosophers spend their time attempting to solve are superfluous. The problems they are attempting to solve are unnecessary because when one properly analyzes the language used in these problems they realize that there are no problems. The problems that were thought to exist are just the result of linguistic confusion, mostly dealing with the metaphysical world.

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“The communists everywhere support every revolutionary movement against the existing social and political order of things” (Marx and Engels, 1848, p. 220). The increasing disparity of income between the classes along with horrendous working conditions created the environment in which communism was formed.

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“Do you begin to see, then, what kind of world we are creating? It is the exact opposite of the stupid hedonistic Utopias that the old reformers imagined. A world of fear and treachery and torment, a world of trampling and being trampled upon, a world which will grow not less but more merciless as it refines itself. Progress in our world will be progress toward more pain.” George Orwell, 1984.

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Martin Luther King Jr. wrote in his Letter From Birmingham City Jail, “I guess I should have realized that few members of a race that has oppressed another race can understand or appreciate the deep groans and passionate yearnings of those that have been oppressed and still fewer have the vision to see that injustice must be rooted out by strong, persistent and determined action.”

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