1. Analysis of Iris Murdoch in relation to Moral Philosophy
Like socialism, fascism sees the importance of how the individual and society are inseparable and must cooperate with each other to succeed. ... They can advocate for revolution to free the individual or they can expect the State to eventually diminish due to the enlightenment of more individuals, similar...
The Tsar who defeated the French Empire was profoundly influenced by their domestic and foreign affairs, leading his vision of Russia to enhance and protect the revolutionary ideals of the Enlightenment and the French Revolution. ... Although it was never set in stone, the thought and plans to abolish it, was of paramount importance to move Russia out of their older regime. Catherine was attracted to the French Enlightenment, keeping herself connected with great French minds like Voltaire and Montesquieu. Voltaire summed Catherine up in two words calling her a "benevolent despot," me...
INTRODUCTION: Japan is geographically described as having 47 prefectures, with 4 distinct main islands, Hokkaido, Honshu, Shikoku and Kyushu. The distance separating Korea and Kyushu is only 200 km while the distance separating Hokkaido and Sakhalin is only 40 km. The formation of the Japanese ci...
They founded the Institut d'Egypte with the aim of propagating enlightenment values in Egypt through interdisciplinary work. ... Enlightenment thinkers such as Kant, Smith and Diderot were critical of the barbarity of colonialism and challenged the idea that Europeans had the obligation to ˜civilize' the rest of the world. However, before enlightenment thinkers could articulate a compelling critique of colonialism, they had to recognize the importance of culture and the possibility of cultural pluralism. ...
RUSSIAN REVOLUTIONARY AVANT-GARDE The avant-garde way of life prospered in Russia directly following the Revolution of 1917, generating one of the most awe-inspiring art movements of the twentieth century. Assembling an entirely new government, the Bolsheviks gave free reign to the Russian avant-garde to create a new culture and thus a new society through art. For this brief time, the culture of the avant-garde was synonymous with official cultural policy of the Soviets. Its leaders were empowered to establish government-sponsored art schools, and an entire system that espoused some of...
African Americans have been fighting for their rights for decades. The African American civil rights movement changed everything. This social movement looked to outlaw discrimination towards black Americans and obtain their right to vote. The movement did not turn to violence to get what they wanted...
ABSTRACT This dissertation aims to study development and broadcasting in Zambia, to draw conclusions as to the present situation of broadcasting and the direction it should move in the future. The study of the development of broadcasting in Zambia and its current structure are outlined together wi...
The Vision of a Sustainable Society The Rio Conference on the Environment (1992) will live on in mankind's history as the occasion which put an end to obsession with economic development. That "development" was no more than misrepresented growth of wealth along with a corresponding frantic squandering of mankind's natural reserves. The irrational vision of an "affluent society", an earthly material paradise, had dominated the mind of peoples for twenty years, to the point of blindness: all countries had thrown themselves into a competition of ruthless development and were concerne...
In a way, it might have begun with the Age of Enlightenment and its drive toward a mastery of nature and society, with human reason at the center of everything, since which rationality had been considered the key to justice, morality, control, organization, understanding and happiness. ...
The importance of education of women, to develop reason, is so important and crucial for life experiences. ... "One of the most absurd notions taken over from the eighteenth century enlightenment is that in the beginning of society woman was the slave of man the overthrow of the mother right was the world historical defeat of the female sex. ...
Raised in a post-Enlightenment household, Marx was heavily influenced by the revolutionary period in history. ... Marx notes that the main thing that gets fetishized in a capitalist economy is money, and that when people place too much importance on this, there becomes an imbalance in both the economy and the society as a whole (Marx, 1965). ...
This combined with our esteem for natural sciences dominant from the times of Enlightenment (Macintyre: 1987) has made it very tempting to deepen the idea of physiological individuality, to apply the model to different spheres of culture and intertwine it with them. ...
Defining gender violence as a violation of human rights is a relatively new approach to the problem. In the late 1980s and early 1990s, the global feminist social movement worked to introduce this idea to the human rights community and by the early years of the 21st century, succeeded in establishing the right to protection from gender violence as a core dimension of women's human rights. This is another example of the process described in Chapter 2, in which a social movement defines a problem and generates support from legal institutions and states. After describing how gender viol...
America's Revolutionary War is a subject that engenders perpetual curiosity. By any sensible reckoning, Britain should have won the war. England's army was the strongest professional fighting force in the world, supremely confident, and led by experienced, gifted commanders with a long and storied h...
Before engaging with this debate, however, I will briefly recapitulate Jameson's original thesis and what I still consider to be the importance of his theoretical endeavor. ... The whole Enlightenment project, argued Lyotard, has come to an end, how can we still meaningfully speak of human progress and the rational control of the life world after Auschwitz and Stalin's gulags. ...
A Dutch academic who maintains a good website on globalisation, Ruud Lubbers, defines it as a process in which geographic distance becomes a factor of diminishing importance in the establishment and maintenance of cross border economic, political and socio-cultural relations Left critics of globalisation define the word quite differently, presenting it as worldwide drive toward a globalised economic system dominated by supranational corporate trade and banking institutions that are not accountable to democratic processes or national governments Globalisation is an undeniably capitalist proce...