📌 Definition of the State The State is a sovereign political organization over a given territory, holding a legitimate monopoly on coercion over a population. Max Weber: The State holds the monopoly on legitimate violence. 🎯 Functions of the State 📚 Key Thinkers & Ideas ➤ Hobbes – Leviathan ➤ Locke ➤ Rousseau ➤ Marx […]
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Summary of The Art of Always Being Right – Arthur Schopenhauer
📘 Context and Purpose of the Work Published posthumously, this short text by Arthur Schopenhauer, a 19th-century German philosopher, is both ironic and critical. The title itself is provocative: it’s not about seeking truth, but rather about how one can “be right” in appearance — that is, win an argument, even when one is wrong. […]
Summary of Victor Hugo’s Les Misérables:
Volume I: Fantine Volume II: Cosette Volume III: Marius Volume IV: Saint-Denis Volume V: Jean Valjean Key Themes:
Summary of Albert Camus’ The Stranger :
Part One: Indifference to Death and Love Part Two: The Trial and Confrontation with the Absurd Key Themes: