"Philosophies of leadership are determined by beliefs about human nature."
What this understanding means is that what we think about leadership comes from what we believe about human nature. Basically a leader will determine his own philosophies. But these philosophies derived from his own beliefs and thoughts towards human nature. for example if a leader believes that human nature should be civilized and moral then that leader will lead in a way that shows that he is a civilized person, and he will be a moral person. By this I mean that he will do good, and do what is in his peoples best interest... he will protect their natural rights.
To an extent I agree with this statement... I do believe that a leader should follow their believes on human nature. My philosophy is that human nature and their state of nature should be moral.. a leader isn't following that then their are not being a good leader and looking out for their people. If this happens then the leader could be overthrown. The part that I do no agree with is that not all the philosophies of a leadership come from that leaders view on human nature. They may also come from giving the people their natural rights. Such as when I stated "The people have a right to life, liberty, possession, and health," This did not come from my view on human nature. It came from the fact that I believe that the people have a right to these.. they didn't have to act in a certain way to prove to me that they had a right to these.
"The governed have a responsibility for their governance."
My understanding of this understanding is that the people have the right to do something about the way they are ruled. At CVU if a student doesn't like the way a teacher is acting that student has the responsibility to do something about how the teacher is acting towards them or a different person. By this I mean if they should either talk to the teacher about it or talk to another adult in the school to get something done about what the teacher is doing to make the student feel like something isn't right. In this situation the governed is the student and the governance is the teacher. The governed has that responsibility to do something about the teacher who is, in the students eyes, is doing something wrong. That is why the student went to talk to somebody about the the "governance."
I completely agree with this understanding. In my philosophy I sate that the people have a right to revolt against their government if their government is not looking out for their best interest or is not protecting their natural rights. This understanding is saying just that... I 100% agree with this statement.
"Human Nature does not determine our actions,: it inclines us towards us towards certain actions."
What I understand of this understanding is that human nature does not decide what we do, it just gives us that little "push" we use to make our decisions. A good example of this is Peer Pressure. Say your back in 7th grade... your friends are pushing you to steal a t-shirt. They say "everyone is doing it..." you could either steal the shirt or not... the decision starts with oh, well everyone else is doing it... this is part pf human nature.. but then that thought will either push a person to steal the shirt or make the other decision that you don't need to follow human nature and you can not steal the shirt and be better off.
I do agree with this statement. We, as people, most definitely get that final push to make a decision from human nature. We don't let it decide for us however... we must think things through before making a decision. If we don't, and we just follow what everyone else is doing then we have the chance of failing.... if someone sees a person doing something that is against a moral society and then follows that person, and the someone else follows that person, and so on... all hell will break loose!!! So yes, I do agree that human nature does not make decisions for us... it pushes us to the decisions we make.
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