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Human Nature & Sexuality Philosophy Essay
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It simply sounds irrelevant to make use of the female animal sexuality and reproduction as some of the scientific evidences or examples
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The Philosophic Solution for Self-realisation Philosophy Essay
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In our case study of Peter, adverse life events in early adolescence might be the predictor of his depression. Substance abuse like alcoholism although is an associated outcome of depression, Peter our subject was in the clutches of alcoholism well early in his adolescence. It is not clear if Peter was forced to be a misogynist in his youth or not.
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The Highest Good and Justice: The Role of Philosophy Philosophy Essay
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One of the main attractions of Socrates in Plato’s Republic was his constant focus on issues of immediate relevance to man both individually and in a larger social context.  Rather than addressing issues of a metaphysical nature, he instead dealt with questions and concerns that impacted people’s lives more directly and more concretely.
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The Concept of Reality in Philosophy Philosophy Assignment
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Aristotle contradicted Plato, claiming that all reality is objective, and can be empirically verified. He said that there was no separate existence for the world of ideas and that of things that are sensed. (Radical Academy, Aristotle iii) Descartes’ lines “I think therefore I am” put briefly his view that what a person “.
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The Concept of Fideism Philosophy Assignment
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 Theism is the notion that there is the existence of at least one omnipotent being who is stronger, more powerful, and wiser than that of the inhabitants of the planet. Theism is basically the notion that a God-like entity does, indeed, exist and transcends every single boundary of the world, thus theism is often characterized by perceptions of divine nurture and judgment.
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Platos Apology Philosophy Assignment
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The author states that Socrates also inquires the politicians, the poets, and craftsmen to see if they were truly wise. Socrates wanted to find out and to prove that an ignorant man could be the wisest one in town, thus the questionings of the politicians, poets, and craftsmen. This life mission according to Socrates was guided by God.
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Ancient Greek Philosophy: Concepts Associated with the Presocratics Philosophy Assignment
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The author states that the arche was the primary material element that Thales hypothesized as the source of all beings and cosmic phenomena specifically identifying the archer as water or hydro. This concept influenced other Pre-Socratics to speculate on natural substances as the origin of the world.
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Augustine, Aquinas and Locke: The Truth About Ownership Philosophy Essay
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They considered all land and property (such as housing, clothing, etc.) to belong to Mother Earth and they were the People who lived in that area.
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How Individuals Appraise Their Own Physical Attractiveness Philosophy Essay
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Applying this perspective to self-appraisals of physical attractiveness, it suggests that individuals should rate their current self as more physically attractive than their past self. This framework also implies that individuals should also perceive their future self to be more attractive than their current self.
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How Well does Conservative Describe Burke's Political Philosophy Philosophy Assignment
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In fact, Burke dealt mostly with morality in the particular social and political areas. In fact, his comments on the Revolution in France had caused severe criticism; it was clear that Burke was against the Revolution, but that was not expressed clearly. It was through a justification of desire for order and peace that such an idea could be identified.
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Res Extensa And Res Cogitans: A Kind Of Mental Structure Philosophy Essay
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Efforts to understand the mind and its process go back at least to the Ancient Greeks when philosophers like Plato and Aristotle tried to explain the nature of human understanding. In the 17th century, Descartes popularized the view that the body and the mind were two divided entities, identified as Res Extensa and Res Cogitans.
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Feminism, Environmentalism, and Postmodernism Philosophy Essay
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The researcher of this essay will compare feminism, environmentalism, and postmodernism. Feminism has its roots in the blatant unequal treatment of males and females and the desire for women to be treated equally as men. Environmentalism originated from man’s desire to focus on his natural environment.
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Hegels Interpretation on Universal Love Philosophy Research Paper
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Love seems to be one of the major concepts in Hegel’s philosophical system. Hegel treated love as the most natural feeling of mankind, the only way to getting self whole and freedom. The concept of love plays a significant role in philosopher’s explanations of the relationships of the man with God, himself and the world.
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Aristotle's Concept of Courage Philosophy Assignment
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Political or civic courage (e.g., that of citizen-soldiers), which inspires men to face danger for the sake of honor and renown or to escape the disgrace assigned by law to cowardice. Because it has a noble motive-honor—it is closest to true courage. A lower form of political courage is in which fear of punishment is the only motive.
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How to Tell a True War Story by OBrien, Tim Philosophy Book Report/Review
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Even as O’Brien brings in a war story presented from different angles in a seemingly simple narration, he deconstructs the entire concept of truth in them. The scattered narrations are interspersed with philosophical observations which seem to make it a metafictional work. Nietzsche’s precepts can, in fact, be brought in directly to analyze the issues raised by O’Brien.
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Money as the Key to Happiness Philosophy Essay
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Money plays a vital role in life as this is something that is essential for everyone who needs to survive because even the essentials of life are commercialized. To acquire even the basic and food & shelter, one has to work day long to have some money to buy it. This clearly shows that there is no life without money.
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Marx and Weber on the Transition to Capitalist Modernity Philosophy Essay
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The author of the essay states that the critical descriptions of capitalism which we meet on pages of "Capital" by K.Marx, should concern, according to Weber’s logic, not to the modern civilized capitalism, but to the vestiges of the old, adventurous capitalism which has historically settled.
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Can Cyber-Love Attain Genuinely and Divinity Philosophy Essay
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 In Symposium by Plato, while describing the nature of love the prophetess Diotima states, ‘It is immortality in a mortal creature.’ (“Symposium” page 49) According to her, ‘It is for begetting and birth in the beautiful.’ Love has always been criticized for being blind and stupid by some rational people.
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The Psychological Context of Bystanders Apathy Philosophy Case Study
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The author states that Catherine Susan “Kitty” Genovese was brutally murdered by Winston Moseley while on her way from her parked car to her apartment in a cold 3:15 AM of March 13, 1964. About 38 bystanders were believed to witness the event but one had shouted on the attacker and another one called the police.
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Knowledge Versus Power Philosophy Essay
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When we think about knowledge, the first component that comes to our mind is information. When we ask the question, “what does a man with knowledge have?” the simplest and shortest answer we have is “information”. A person with more possession of information or data is therefore at a more advantageous position with respect to the other. In his famous Latin work “Treatise--De Hoeresiis”, Bacon points out that “Knowledge too, is itself a power”.
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Othello a tragic hero Philosophy Essay
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One Master took up the mantle of another previous Master and wove a tale of great human tragedy. Shakespeare took up the gauntlet thrown by Aristotle, who defined the term Tragic Heroes and portrayed it to perfection over others.
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Acute Pneumonia and Critical Nursing Philosophy Essay
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Critical care nursing is a special case of nursing that deals with patients facing light-threatening problems and it is the critical care nurse whose responsibility is to ensure that the critically ill patient and his or her family receive optimal care. In this nerve-racking setting, it is the duty of the nurses to assist and take care of the patient.
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Living the Philosophy of Carpe Diem: Seize the Moment Philosophy Term Paper
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Sympotic poetry entails conversation and song, but a song that keeps to the moment inscribes its own occasion, and does not go on at length about the events of the mythic past.” Thus, we have productions of Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet that present the lessons of the past on the contemporary stage of the present using rap in song and poetry.
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Personal Philosophy of Meaning and Value Philosophy Essay
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Philosophy encompasses the thinking of a philosopher as to how he depicts a particular situation or an event and how he goes about describing it with his own experiences of the past and what he would have done had he been present in that event or situation. It is all about ideas and how one perceives them.
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Social Contract and Hegels Model Philosophy Essay
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Hegel defines ethical life as the identification of the individual with the totality of his social life (Hegel 419). The formulation of the state is based upon the fact that spiritual realities can only be manifested through its existence because the State is actually the embodiment of the rational essence of a particular group of people.
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Theorie of Positivism and Constructivism Philosophy Article
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The study involved the development of a Constructivist Assumption Scale or CAS that measures assumptions of persons and their relation to identity style. Botella and Gallifa (1995) have given a constructivist model of epistemic development and measured positivism and constructivism as also mechanism and organicism.
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Directions of Epistemology Philosophy Case Study
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Epistemology is connected with fundamental problems of ontology, in particular with the conflict between idealism and materialism. Besides the circle of practical epistemological interests are closely adjoined with questions of gnosiology or the theory of knowledge. In the history of epistemology, there are two main schools.
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Scriptural Authority in Hinduism Philosophy Case Study
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The transmission of the Vedas from one generation to another is done in a unique way. The Vedas are esoteric and hence it is for the initiated. Others also need scriptures for their spiritual nourishment. So other forms of writings like the Upanishads, Epics, Puranas, etc evolved. But their ultimate source is the Vedas.
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Friend-True Friend Distinction and Friend-Enemy Distinction Philosophy Essay
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From time immemorial the ideas of friendship and enmity with their minor nuances have engaged the attention of philosophers and literary writers. Plato, Aristotle, Cicero, Shakespeare, Montaigne, Johnson, Austin, -Thoreau, Gaskell, Nietzsche, Schmitt, Hemingway, Auden, etc have made minute and subtle distinctions in their attempt to understand the various concept centered around human friendship.
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Constructivism and post-structuralism Philosophy Essay
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Constructivism obscures the politics already involved in representing reality. This is at the heart not only of constructivism's success but also of the celebration and despair it triggers. Those wary of constructivism object to the exclusion of challenging and thought-provoking questions about politics and the political.
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The Expression Theory of Art Philosophy Essay
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As defined by Freeland, the ‘expression theory’ as it pertains to art is based on the concept that art is intended to communicate something to the viewer that is focused upon exacting an emotion or feeling.  This is accomplished through careful use of line and color as well as specific content, motion and other attributes dependent on and specific to the particular form of art in question.   
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Future of Artificial Intelligence Philosophy Essay
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Personal experience, however, is different mainly because it is where personal knowledge could be drawn. It is a combination of previous activities done through various human abilities such as socialization, intelligence, reasoning, sensory perception, adaptability, and beliefs, among others.
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Comparing Plato and Hobbes Philosophy Essay
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Plato, like Hobbes, uses The Republic of Plato to create a city, a sort of Leviathan-type whose purpose is in essence drastically different. Plato is a philosopher in the truest sense of the word as he has studied nature and has sought out the truth. Hobbes bases his Leviathan to triumph over nature but on the other hand, Plato has created his city to find the very same.
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I Think, Therefore I Kant Philosophy Essay
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Kant was also able to plot a course of philosophy toward rationalism and away from empiricism. Kant relied on reason and was able to demonstrate that experience and sensation could not account for nature or our actions. Kant remained sympathetic to empiricism and suggested the duality of reason and knowledge as two separate spheres of endeavor.
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Cynthia Halpern's book: suffering, politics, and power Philosophy Essay
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While conceding to the fact that “Suffering in the Context of Religion,” is dominated by Luther’s writings, an explanation and analysis of his stance vis-à-vis the dual nature of man and the world he occupies, the shift to Locke, Rousseau, Nietzsche and Skinner, to name but a few, is seamless.
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Whether Marxism Is an Outdated 19th Century Politico-Economic Philosophy Philosophy Case Study
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Many, especially the proponents of liberalism, capitalism, and globalization, have interpreted developments as evidence for the defeat of the Marxist ideology and the triumph of the capitalist one. On the basis of this conclusion, it is assumed that Marxism, as in the thoughts and philosophy of Karl Marx, is irrelevant to the twenty-first century. 
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What Are the Links Between Class and Alienation According to Marx Philosophy Case Study
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In the world, the productions of the human brain appear as independent beings endowed with life and entering into relation both with one another and the human race. So it is in the world of commodities with the products of men’s hands. This I call the Fetishism which attaches itself to the products of labour, as they are produced as commodities. 
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Ethics of Dignity and Freedom by Kant Philosophy Essay
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This essay presents a research that was conducted on the theories of Kant, who is a famous philosopher who made a great contribution into the development of philosophy in general and of ethics, as a branch of philosophy. His unique ethical theory is even more remarkable than his works in epistemology and metaphysic.
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Ethics and Religion Philosophy Essay
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According to the paper religion is considered to be totality of feelings (fear, love, honor) which people have to something that is stronger. Besides religion includes the rituals associated with such belief or system of thoughts. The development of religion has taken many forms from different cultures. Ethics is a major branch of philosophy, the study of value or quality of our moral actions.
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Spinozas Conception of God Philosophy Essay
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In the readings consulted, Spinoza did not really argue for or against the existence of God, though he stated that the existence of God was a logical conclusion.He took that as a given. What Spinoza was attempting was a definition of the nature of God and of all existence
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Culture and Religion Philosophy Essay
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This paper analyzes the work of Salem Witch Hunt, which occurred in 1692, had been chronicled in a plethora of literary works, because of its relevance to cultural, racial, gender, and class distinctions existing in the 17th Century. The course of events that culminated in this event clearly depicted how people had been marginalized on the basis of these indicators.
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Philosophies of Love: Platos Ideal of Love Philosophy Essay
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Since the philosophers of the time were often concerned with the functions of things, a part of Plato’s work is dedicated to the function and purposes of love and how it affects human beings as well as animals. The paper also covers Plato’s inspired ideas about how honorable love functions in, “Giving birth in beauty both in body and mind (Plato 43)”.
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Piety: The Dialogues of Plato Philosophy Essay
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The statements presented by the writer are good representatives of the actual dialogs since as mentioned, the approach to piety is ambiguous at best and one can not say with certainty what would be pious actions and what could be considered evil. The defiance of Prometheus can be seen as both pious and impious depending on which view is taken.
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The Philosophical Naturalism Of David Hume Philosophy Essay
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Hume felt that since human beings live and function in the world, we should try to observe how they do so. The key principle to be applied to any investigation of our cognitive capacities is, then, an attempt to discover the causes of human belief. According to Hume, the proper goal of philosophy is simply to explain why we believe what we do.
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Smith and Kant on Universities Philosophy Assignment
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The author states that Kant wrote a lot more about universities and was deeper ingrained into the idea of a university than Smith primarily due to his extensive work on philosophical thought and the idea of morality. A part of that morality was peace between people as well as nations and the ideal university.
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Ideal Society in the Republic of Plato Philosophy Essay
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Plato is in search of Justice in the Kallipolis and in the individual. His Kallipolis is largely the ‘city-state’ of his time especially from 427 to 347 B.C. The earlier contemporaneous city-state with democratic form of government had inflicted an exile and death sentence on Plato’s master teacher, Socrates. Plato, as such, has always had developed a strong dislike for democracy.
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Foucaults Contribution to the Study of Punishment Philosophy Essay
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For Foucault in Discipline and Punish and The History of Sexuality the relationship between discursive systems of knowledge and power and domination becomes critical. Unlike Marxists, he sees no one set of factors as directing human destiny. Rather, he represents power in terms of a multiplicity of force relations.
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Marxist Perspective Philosophy Assignment
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The author states that when a political order based on class is found which seems to lack class conflict, special attention is paid. Marxism is particularly suited to ferreting out the hidden resistance present in religion and ideology. Marxism is of course dedicated to examining the modes of production present in any society.
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The Role and Main Features of 'Conceptual Scheme' Philosophy Literature review
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 However, as soon as he recognizes the need to create a common framework, he is also right away able to identify that he is confounded by the intricate and complex problems of experience, reality, and language.  As such, he puts it upon himself to explicate the meandering relation between man’s experiences (whether inner or outer), of the world as transmitted through language.
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Philosophical Thoughts on the Notion of Justice Philosophy Essay
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In this regard, one can forget that to a large degree, society rests on the rich heritage of philosophers and thinkers who in the course of the several last centuries have laid the ground for what one perceives as modern democratic institutions and practices. There also were scholars with historical significance as to that of the classical political philosophers.
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