an English political philosopher named Thomas Hobbes published a book on the nature of man‚ titled The Leviathan. Four decades later‚ another English thinker named John Locke published his theories about mankind in its natural state‚ titled Second Treatise of Civil Government. Locke’s and Hobbes’s controversial writings about mankind sparked a new era of political philosophy‚ called the Enlightenment. An intellectual elite‚ Philosophes‚ arose in France. In
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Samuel Johnson‚ a prominent British politician at the time of the American revolution‚ asked: "how is it that we hear the loudest yelps for liberty among the drivers of negroes" (Johnson 83). It was a good question‚ one that we are still answering today. To many outside the colonies‚ it was illogical that a slave-holding people would argue so fervently about their God given rights. Many of the founding fathers‚ most of whom were slaveholders‚ recognised this irony. Nevertheless‚ they enshrined slavery
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Cultural Relativism and Ethnocentrism may attribute to the differences btw Religion & Magic. Ethnocentrism is a cultural attitude that one’s own culture is the best‚ thus we evaluate other cultures on the basis of our own cultural perspective. On the other hand‚ Cultural Relativism is opposite of ethnocentrism and is based on understanding other cultures in the context of that culture only and not from our own cultural standard. According to Durkheim religion is a system of beliefs and practices
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Ideologies Liberalism Conservatism Socialism Communism Fascism Major Thinkers/ Founders and Books -Thomas Hobbes -John Locke -John Stuart Mill -T.H Green -Agreement of the People manifesto -Two Treatises(Locke) -Richard Hooker -George Savile 1st Marquess of Halifax -Edmund Burke -Tamworth manifesto -Patriarcha: or the Natural Powers of Kings(Filmer) -Karl Marx -Friedrich Engels -Pierre Leroux -Vladimir Lenin -Robert Owen -Communist manifesto(Marx and Engels) -Karl Marx
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Nicolaus Copernicus By: Jenny For over 1‚000 years‚ everyone thought everything revolved around the earth‚ but Nicolaus Copernicus had a different idea that we base off of still today. He was a doctor and a church amidisteror‚ but still‚ impressively‚ put in time for his favorite thing‚ astrology. Copernicus was born on February 19‚ 1473 in Torun‚ Poland. He was born into a very wealthy merchant family of six. His dad passed away when he was 10. His uncle then took him under his wing promising
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developed his arguments considerably so as to take into account that there may be lower order appetites and desires that can obfuscate and subvert reason‚ and that this is the reason why people may error with unjust actions. As a philosophical treatise‚ it is to be commended for appreciating the complexity of human motivations‚ however given our contemporary biological knowledge we can see that the simplified composition of the ‘soul’ espoused by Plato may be untenable. Also‚ by virtue of the soul
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welfare state in ancient India. * To know about the elements of state and foreign policy in ancient India as devised by Kautilya in his masterpiece Arthashastra Brief Summary Kautaliya ’s Arthashastra (322-298BC) is a brilliant and comprehensive treatise on all aspects of domestic politics‚ international relations‚ intelligence and good governance. This gives a more detailed picture of statecraft. Kautilya was the chief mentor and a minister who helped first emperor of India Chandragupta Maurya to
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Mathematics in Indian has a very long and hallowed record. Sulvasutras‚ the most ancient extant written sms messages (prior to 800 BCE) that deal with mathematics‚ clearly situation and make use of the so-called Pythagorean theorem apart from providing various exciting estimates to surds‚ in connection with the development of altars and fire-places of different forms and designs. By enough duration of Aryabhata (c.499 CE)‚ the Native indian specialised mathematicians were completely acquainted with
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In contrast‚ Karl Marx in his Das Kapital reasoned that workers would be exploited by any capitalist‚ or factory owners‚ for the capitalist system provides an inherent advantage to the already rich and a disadvantage to the already poor segments of society. The rich would get richer and the poor would get poorer. Furthermore‚ the “capitalist” is always in a better position to negotiate a low wage for his workers‚ he argued. One of his notable and more contentious theories – the labor theory of value
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ISLAMIAT PROJECT -RESERCH ABOUT 5 SCIENTISTS. -THEIR CONTRIBUTIONS TOWARDS SCIENCE. -WRITE ANY ONE OF THEIR CONTRIBUTION WHICH IS USED TODAY IN MODERN WORLD. THE GREAT SCIENCTISTS CONTRBUTIONS TO THE MODERN WORLD. Muslim have made immense contributions to almost all branches of the sciences. Islam gave the world everything. After Islam the world benefited in all ways which we are all thinking as the contribution from Europe. Whatever the historical books used by the western world is all lies. All
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