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n Myths10 America Is the most powerful country in the world, living in a dream? Well, ten of America's most widely know phrases; four of what we know as liberties, are myths. The American dream, just that a dream. Individualism, I am me, is something of the past. America's melting pot that is...
Revolutions begin as a protest against tyranny, but end by creating a state far more powerful than the one that they replace. Discuss with reference to France and Russia. The French revolution was the catalyst that ended the system of monarchy and aristocratic privilege and brought about the...
Thomas Hobbes, the famous author of "Leviathan", (1651), was a theorist on the law, the state of nature and the concept of social contract, and as such, one of the founders of modern political philosophy. He argued that both the law of nature and social contract provided the basis of sov...
The concepts of 'Jiyushugi' (principle of self-judgement) and 'Bummei Kaika' (civilisation and enlightenment) had been celebrated through the writings of earlier Meiji intellectuals such as Fukuzawa Yukichi and Nakamura Masano15, and had remained sufficiently vitalised up until the 1920's with political organisations such as the Kenseikai party (Constitutional Government party) making considerable apparent headway in achieving democratic governance. ...
The noble purposes of press freedom, as envisioned by the Enlightenment philosophers and others since, would clearly elevate society, but in most instances these are still distant goals, not actual accomplishments, not the reality of the situation today or perhaps ever. ...