Essay state types (materialism, liberalism, romanticism & anarchy)

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The ways we can see the state now a days

There are 4 types of the “natural state form” we saw 3 in class and the last one I required

a little investigation because we did not saw it the way we saw the others. Yet, here arethe ways we can see the 4 state political organization forms that have been seen along

with the time before the XIX century.

First of all, we saw in class 4 ways the state was seen, or which the supposed “natural

state political organization” was. The first one is the Materialism. Supported by Thomas

Hobbes, a British philosopher is the one that says that “the men are wolf ́s men” .this can

be understood as that the men are the cause of men´s problems. According to this way of

the state, all men are equal and free, but in a way that everyone is free to do whatever he

or she wants to do, also equal. This is what causes the conflict between men. This dictates

that everyone acts for material things, land, pencils, or everything that can come to your

mind; if one person has it you can have it too, because you and the person are equal.

This causes many troubles, because the way one person gets things from another can be

gentile or hostile, with the end of getting one simple thing. Which is the way we can see

this “form of the state” now a days? We can see it every day one person steals from an

oxxo, a seven eleven or even people in the street. People are free to get or have

everything they want, even if it is from another person, and because they are equal they

can do whatever they want to get it, in this case it will be money. The ways of getting it

would be asking for it, working or stealing, damaging others, threatening and more. This just because we are “equal”, so we can get anything we want, and “free”, to do whatever

we want to get it. Materialism can be seen now in our time; even it was seen before long

ago.

Liberalism was the second. Supported by John Locke, the liberalism says that we are all

free and equal in the sense that “equality” is for us because we were made by the same

creator, so we are all equal. And “freedom” to make the choices we want to do, nobody

can make us do things we do not want to do. Therefore we are rational entities, we think

of what we want to do and what ways we can do it. The liberalism was also a doctrine in

the XVI and the VXI century that supported ideas of equal rights, constitutionalism, fair

elections and freedom of religion, within others. This is “good” because it helps the

survival of us as individuals and us as a society.



One way I think we can see the liberalism is in the political parties. This happened in the

XIX century when the liberalists were against the monarchy and wanted civil rights and

free market, this search for liberty was part of the reasons many of the independences

happened, The American independence, the French and Mexican, among others. Many of

the political parties we see now days are the remaining of liberalism, we have the Liberal

Party of Canada, the Liberal Party in the United States, we here in México had the “Partido

liberal Mexicano” which ended in 1932. But the political parties are not the only way we

can see liberalism now a days we can see it, I think, in all the “revolts” to get freedom, the

protest people make to get or reclaim what the government promised, the movements

against repression.

Romanticism was next of liberalism. Romanticism was a kind of revolt against the social

and aristocratic norms of the enlightment, it happened in the XVII century being called the

Romantic Era between 1750 and 1850. Supported by Jean-Jacques Rousseau, which said

that men es good by nature and corrupted by society, Romanticism says we are all free to

do the things we want and equal because we have the same opportunities everyone has.

Philosophers were very objective about what they said, “They chose to see human

nature as something uniform” (4).

This way of seeing the state is different from liberalism because instead of seeing the

society with reason it was seen as diverse or everyone was unique. This is why

romanticism had so many advances in literature, art, paintings, sculptures and all the fine

arts. The way we can see this reflected now a days would be the remaining sot all the arts

that were made in this time, all the books, the sculptures, paintings, architecture andpoems. This way of seeing the state has not many actual views, only the remaining.

At last there is Anarchy. Anarchy is by definition “a state of lawless or political disorder

due to the lack or absence of government” and “a utopian society of individuals”. This

caused me controversy, because these definitions are from the same online dictionary.

The political disorder I think many of us consider it a chaos, and with that we imagine

things like wars, graffiti , robbing and more things like that. Yet, I think the real meaning of

anarchy is not anything related to chaos. Anarchy is just the lack of any kind of

government. This can be either good or bad, we are equal and free because nobody

dictates us the contrary.

The way it is good, it is you make your choices, and no one can tell you if it is right or

wrong, but also it gives you the freedom to do whatever you want to do, like stealing,

destroying or even killing. There is no actual way we see these now days because we have

always a political government. There is not anarchy. Anarchy would be something like “V

de Vendeta” because of the way it ends. Nonetheless It would be interesting to know how



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