Robertson and Merrils (1996) write 'it is clear that the mainstream has its origin in the liberal democratic tradition of Western Europe, a tradition which is itself the product of the Greek philosophy, Roman law, the Judeo-Christian tradition, the humanism of the Reformation and the Age of reason' (Robertson and Merrils, 1996, p2). The ancient Greeks thinker Aristotle spoke of man as a social being with a 'reasoning soul' and in Christianity the biblical notion of man is in the 'image and likeness of God'. ...

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