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Compare George Bush's Inaugural Address with ideologies of classical philosophers

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In our Western Ideologies class we have been given an assignment to compare
George Bush's ideologies of his 2001 Inaugural Address with the ideologies of classical philosophers such as Karl Marx etc. We are concerned with the philosophers of the western world.

I need help sorting through Bush's ideologies and comparing the basic ideas to other philosophers.

IE.

Karl Marx in comparison to Bush's small business ideologies etc.

--- Ideologies to be compared...

Economy- Karl Marx
Education- Erasmus
Bruni
Machaviolli
Progress- Maybe Hegel?
Government in General- Jean Rousseau

This is just my list of philosophers I thought might be comparable to Bush's ideologies in his address.

http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/inaugural-address.html <-- 3 MIN READ

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I will explain some points of comparison and contrast that jumped out at me when I read this address. My comparisons are unsystematic and only deal with a couple of the thinkers you mention, but I trust they will be good starting points if you want to put this speech into perspective vis-à -vis the philosophical canon.

The address says "While many of our citizens prosper, others doubt the promise, even the justice, of our own country. The ambitions of some Americans are limited by failing schools and hidden prejudice and the circumstances of their birth." The implication here for what is worth aspiring to in this American polity, the abundance "of ou citizens [who] prosper," is that a sound schooling is a condition for achieving it. Jean-Jacques Rousseau would disagree with the goal implied and disapprove of the means precisely because he agrees (in his First and Second Discourses) with Bush that the two, education and material prosperity, are connected: "our souls have become corrupted in proportion as our Sciences and our Arts have advanced toward perfection." The problem is that, as Bush would agree, man's learning leads him to increased material comfort, which, for Rousseau, is irremediably tied to moral decline. As he writes in the First Discourse, "Luxury is seldom found without the sciences and the arts and they are never found without it... And luxury is diametrically opposed to good morals." From a Rousseauian perspective, Bush's valuation of ...

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