Freedom of expression, information, freely choosing, changing and discarding one's religion and the right to life are some of the fundamental Human Rights, which are threatened by fundamentalism, going to the extent of advocating death for non-believers and freethinkers. ... Islamic Fundamentalism is a dogmatic, religion based ideology that obstructs the growth of a rational, secular morality based on human desires and needs. ...

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It would be easy to accept the popular notion that only representative democratic regimes can be legitimate, after all, that is what is familiar to citizens of the modern Western world and humans, being creatures of habit, will often accept the status quo as that which is right. However, it is necessary to examine on what grounds democratic regimes acquire their supposed legitimacy and whether other types of rule can be legitimate too. The notion of 'legitimacy' is too broad to be discussed as one concept, it covers input legitimacy, output legitimacy, legality, will of the people, ...

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Hence, one can rationally deduce that the bill pursues to protect the freedom of South African citizens by denying it. ... Freedom of expression and access to information is a primary right and must be held as a cornerstone of democracy – but it's a start to an end of the legend of our democracy. ...

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Anarchism may be defined as a political philosophy based upon nonhierarchical free associations, decentralized and without coercive authority with guidance from innate human tendencies towards cooperation and avoidance of suffering being aloud open expression. ... Daniel Guerin purports that anarchy is the "most complete disorganization of society" which constructs a "new, stable and rational order based upon freedom and solidarity", with the creation of worker autonomy as the chief liberating factor. ...

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If voting is the fundamental method of political expression in our representative democracy, why do so many Americans take their democratic right for granted? ... On the extreme other hand, the decision to abstain from voting, and from otherwise taking part in political activities, may reflect a voter's rational judgement that his future is safe in the hands of whichever candidate emerges as winner. ...

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However, when legal stratification is no longer part of the equation, the barriers to communication between citizens perish along with the disappearance of the deceptive idea of undisputable greatness and superiority and what remains is a society of more rational individuals who act on 'visible', empirical evidence and not on illusions that demand submission ("dans un pays où les citoyens, devenus à peu près pareils, se voient tous de fort près, et n'apercevant dans aucun d'entre eux les signes d'un grandeur et d'une supériorité...

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Virtu Like most Western philosophers, Niccolo Machiavelli's ideas were heavily influenced by the early Greek philosophers. Most notable among the Greek philosophers who inspired Machiavelli was Plato. In particular, Machiavelli took interest in Plato's concept of just rulers who ruled by moral virtue. Machiavelli argued against this Platonic philosophy. He believed in "virtu", whatever was best for the State was virtu. ...

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