Democracy or dictatorship? [pic] We all have been saying in the past and even now that even the worst democracy is better than dictatorship but the question we need to ask ourselves is that even after all the efforts made by the lawyers movement and fresh elections in pakistan have we achieved a REAL democracy? At this present time we got two mainstream parties PPP and PML(a-z) both been controlled in undemocratic ways where one person lead it and no matter what happens he/she is gonna be leader
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Contemporary Civilizations GENERAL WILL & MAJORITY RULE Jean-Jacques Rousseau on the Institute of Government Rousseau’s notion of General Will possesses a direct correlation to the idea of general welfare and the common interests of a people as a whole. In On The Social Contract he explains the philosophy being the idea of General Will by stating that "So long as several men together consider themselves to be a single body‚ they have but a single will‚ which is concerned with their common
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The social pact comes down to this; "Each one of us puts into the community his person and all his powers under the supreme direction of the general will; and as a body‚ we incorporate every member as an indivisible part of the whole (Rousseau: 61)". The general will can itself direct the forces of the state with the intention of the whole’s primary goal - which is the common good. The general will does not allow private opinions to prevail. The union of the people‚ in its passive role is known
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Discuss the Athenian definition of democracy. Is the city state the only kind of state in which true democracy can exist? What happens to democracy when it is applied to a society with a large dispersed population? What are other examples of democratic societies besides Athens? Compare and contrast Athenian democracy with American democracy. Is the United States a democracy in the classical sense of the word? The ancient Greek word "demokratia" was ambiguous. It met literally "people power"
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What are liberals and conservative philosophies? These two philosophies are how our political parties are based on. The Democratic party takes a more liberal ideology. While‚ the Republican party takes a more conservative stand. So which philosophy is the best? Liberal and conservative have a essential ideology which they base their beliefs. Liberal believe that government should act in our daily lives to achieve equal opportunities and equality for all. In the other hand‚ conservative belies in
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Democracy‚ also known as democratic government‚ is essentially a government by the people. It is a form of government in which the supreme power is retained by the people‚ but sometimes exercised indirectly through a system of representation and delegated authority periodically renewed during elections. Democracy differs from other types of government.For example‚ absolute monarchy‚ in which an individual holds all the power‚ or oligarchy‚ in which a few individuals hold all the power. There
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Democracy Through Time Democracy as a concept has changed and evolved through the years. Lao-Tzu‚ a Chinese philosopher‚ advised a form of government that had many democratic values to his emperor. His work‚ Tao-te Ching‚ was written in the sixth century B.C. before the term democracy was even coined. Some time later‚ in the fifth and fourth centuries B.C.‚ the Greeks gave this idea a name and put it into effect. In the work The Origin of Civil Society (1762) Jean-Jacques Rousseau argues
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Source one basicly criticizes the idea of how liberal elections function however with closer inspection it can be seen that the author of the source is also hinting that the root of the problem is liberalism itself he then goes on to state a solution to his apparent problem with the liberal system which enforces the aspect of freedom of the individual above that of government power. One of these such problems is the idea that intelligent people are not normally chosen from elections‚ the reason for
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Liberal arts is a form of study in which the learner focuses on gaining general knowledge‚ rather than a specific skill in a specific line of work. It is designed to give the learner a more full educations. I chose liberal arts because I feel it is important to have this full education- that is‚ to be exposed to various viewpoints and sides of life that I may otherwise pass over. I was also drawn to the idea of not being limited in my studies to courses only pertaining to my major. So‚ it was both
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In The Matrix the protagonist Neo is the liberal humanist. The being free from the structure of society and able to make choices without the bias thrown upon us through media and language. However within the first twenty minutes of the movie the theory of the liberal humanist begins to collapse around Neo. He learns that his life has been pre decided and machines control the reality he believes to be truth. The irony in finding out that his whole life is essentially a lie is that he does obtain the
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