The Enlightenment‚ which largely took place in Europe during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries‚ was an intellectual movement that focused on the development of reason and secularism‚ rather than spirituality. As a result‚ it directly influenced political and economic policy‚ especially within the British colonies. One very well-known philosopher was‚ John Locke; he argued the ideas of natural rights‚ social contract‚ and revolution. At their essence‚ these three concepts proved to be the philosophical
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Students Federation of India (SFI) is one of the major student organisations in India. Founded in 1970‚ it is the students’ wing of the Communist Party of India (Marxist). As of 2012‚ it claims a membership strength of nearly 40 lakhs school and university students.[1] SFI is currently led at the All India level by Ritabrata Banrjee‚ General Secretary and V.Sivadassan‚ President. Being the students wing of the ‚ the Students’ Federation of India‚ abbreviated SFI‚ carries forward the heritage of
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The Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP) was formally launched as an independent political organisation in February 1980‚ after the split of the Janata Party on the R.S.S issue. Most of east while Jana Sangha members along with a few others‚ left the Janata Party to form the B.J.P. Thus the B.J.P. is a reincarnation of the Jana Sangha‚ the militant Hindu nationalist party founded in 1951 by Shyama Prasad Mukherjee. The object of the Jana Sangha was the rebuilding of Bharat as a modern‚ democratic society
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President François Hollande was elected the new president of France on May 6‚ 2012. He gave his inauguration speech in Paris on May 15‚ 2012‚ and expressed his deep gratitude to the French people for investing him into the highest office. He presented his political vision in a message of confidence‚ as a metaphor for trust‚ to uphold the nation’s state of affairs‚ and stated: A brief review of France’s history will help us to understand President Hollande’s speech in its rightful political context
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We could start by pointing out that rationality and logic are centrifugal to our structure of morality. That despite overwhelming amounts of evidence for our selfishness‚ our inclusion of considerations for all earthlings exists not as a protection against the insecurity of our arguments being considered intrinsically inconsistent but because of the obvious fallacies involved with anthropocentricism. There is no evidence that indicates that we are the most significant species on the planet‚ in fact
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divided into two blocks where both these super powers were struggling to win their ideological dominance in the world. Former USSR was promoting communism while USA was a spreading capitalism and free-market economy‚ though both states agree to secularism‚ which means religion is not a part of politics. (Yergin D 1988) So it means that religion was not the basis of the long area of cold war between these two rivals. On the other hand a case of India and Pakistan‚ the two major countries in South
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The return of Martin Guerre Martin Guerre’s family under his father Sanxi‚ and uncle Pierre‚ move from Hendaye‚ in Basque county to Artigate‚ it took them three day walk to get there the reason they left their home because of the continual threat of warfare in the region between France and Spain‚ the armies passing through the area and ravaging the neighborhood; the Basque country and Navarre were long source of dispute between two neighbor country. At the age of fourteen martin married to Bertrande
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All You Need to Know About Iran CHAPTER IV Iran’s Political System: Iran’s political structure is a republic‚ but it is different from other similar political systems. It could be referred to as being a mixture of theocracy and democracy. As we saw on the previous chapter‚ when going over Islam’s history‚ Islam experienced the Islamic Revolution in 1979. Therefore the politic al system of Iran‚ which was established after this event‚ was defined by the ideas of the revolution. Iran’s government
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Since the post-World War 1 period‚ Liberalism has been actively advanced by Western (or ’first-world’) states as a desirable system of political theory. According to Dunne (in Baylis & Smith 2001‚ pp. 163)‚ the basis for its appeal stems from the fact that Liberalism is viewed as inherently ’optimistic’‚ making it a natural counter-theory to the Realist theories advanced by practitioners of realpolitik in the past (feudalism‚ dictatorships etc.). What makes Liberalism ’optimistic’ in a sense is that
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Mustafa Kemal Atatürk (March 12‚ 1881 - November 10‚ 1938)‚ Turkish soldier and statesman‚ was the founder and first President of the Republic of Turkey. He was born in the Ottoman city of Selânik (now Thessaloniki in Greece)‚ where his birthplace is the Turkish Consulate and is also preserved as a museum. In accordance with the then prevalent Turkish custom‚ he was given the single name Mustafa. His father‚ Ali Riza (Efendi) was a customs officer who died when Mustafa was a child‚ his mother was
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