This was not the case with France. Derrida says "France has had a certain tendency to portray itself as being more open to political refugees in contradiction to other European countries, but the motives behind such a policy of opening up to the foreigner have, however, never been "ethical"- in the sense of the moral law or the law of the land-, or, indeed law of hospitality. The comparative drop in birth rate in France since the middle of the eighteenth century has generally permitted her to be more liberal in matters of immigration for obvious economic reasons; when the economy is doing we...

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He is basically saying, above all else, that a prince must eat, sleep, and live war. ... In other words, he is saying that if you give too much, people will come to expect it of you, and eventually you will come to the point where you have nothing left to give. ... (Encyclopaedia Britannica 6) The French came up with the term "Machiavellianism" (Encyclopaedia Britannica 7) to describe their hatred of Italian life. ...

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Victors and Vanquished, The Interesting Narrative, and The Social Contract gave their readers a glimpse into what the world was like before it became modern. New resources and different cultures were being discovered by explorers that the Old World had never been aware of before. Slaves were a large part of expanding the global economy. There was no government that was representative of the people established until the Age of Revolution. People demanded that they have a say in who governs them. ...

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So, he left England in 1675 and spent around four years travelling all over France. ... He also compared morals to mathematics by saying that it is a demonstrable science which is subject to universal laws. ...

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Many critics regard "King Lear" as the greatest, and most tragic, of William Shakespeare's plays; indeed, some claim that it is the most tragic play ever written. And yet, it is difficult to see why we should regard "King Lear" as a tragedy for the King is basically a pathetic old man, vain and foolish, rash in his judgment and incapable of controlling his emotions. This characterization seems to preclude viewing Lear on the Aristotelian model of a tragic hero, as someone raised above the ordinary level of humanity, except in the most conventional sense of his social status. Moreover, in ...

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