nothing but recursive‚ self aware‚ introspective‚ conscious machines. Special machines‚ no doubt‚ but machines althesame. <br> <br>The series of James bond movies constitutes a decades-spanning gallery of human paranoia. Villains change: communists‚ neo-nazis‚ media moguls. But one kind of villain is a fixture in this psychodrama‚ in this parade of human phobias: the machine. James Bond always finds himself confronted with hideous‚
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Neo-liberalism and “Sound Finance” in India: Viewing Economic Theory and Praxis from the Lens of the People -Zico Dasgupta I The present economic crisis‚ while engulfing the whole capitalist world‚ has left its distinct imprint on the Indian economy. The latter has been characterized by a sharp decline in the GDP growth rate‚ a negative growth rate in agricultural and manufacturing sector‚ massive job losses and plummeting crop prices in the recent period. However‚ as one of the recent estimates
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Communism vs. Liberalism The farther and farther this class drove on through the semester‚ the more I heard the phrase repeated “what if there is no answer to the question?” In both On Liberty and the Communist Manifesto I feel they address this phrase‚ just in their own words. There is no one size fits all answer and now I am starting to understand that is truthful. Everyone believes that people are different; they think different‚ they act different‚ and they want different things. If that is
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The Effects of Neo-Colonialism as presented in Motorcycle Diaries and A Small Place Neo-Colonialism is a very powerful and controversial issue in the world today. Countries such as the United States‚ Great Brittan and France still greatly profit over the countries they left as independent years ago. This paradox is created by the mother country exerting economic and political influence on the former colonies; allowing them to still profit from these third world countries without actually occupying
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Neo-Colonial Africa in a Post-Soviet World A continent of rapid change and slow modernization‚ Africa is a place of several failed and rogue states that are key to the international foreign policy of many world powers during periods of both the past and present. The United States of America (USA)‚ the emerging superpower of last half of the 20th century‚ would clash and eventually prevail against the communist Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) through proxy wars and competition
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La science politique et le néo-institutionnalisme Séminaire du 7-12-05 Introduction Dans ce texte‚ il s ’agit dans un premier temps de présenter d ’une façon générale le néo-institutionnalisme en tant que courant de pensée afin de le situer plus ou moins dans son contexte d ’apparition et notamment pour comprendre quel type d ’approche il se propose d ’être. Dans un deuxième temps‚ il sera question de discuter des trois courants qui le composent‚ c ’est-à-dire : l ’institutionnalisme du
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and laws. These two concepts are conservatism and liberalism. Liberalism supports a more active role of government‚ policies to help minorities and the disadvantaged‚ higher spending and more regulation and policies to redistribute wealth through taxation. Conservatism supports a greater reliance on the free markets‚ a market in which the disadvantage and minorities can support themselves‚ fewer government regulations‚ and lower taxes. Liberalism and conservatism have been political ideas and thoughts
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Liberalism is a political ideology which based on individualism and equality. Liberalism has key ideas such as freedom‚ reason‚ equality‚ toleration‚ consent and constitutionalism. Liberal theories and principles had gradually been developed during the previous three hundred years. With the spreading ideas by enlightenment philosophers‚ liberalism showed up. Liberalism against to religion of state‚ absolute monarchy and religious rights of kings. The 17th-century philosopher John Locke has known
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Speaking of the liberalism in more details‚ it is based on the firm belief in basic human liberties. Among the developers of liberalism‚ it is important to identify John Locke‚ Adam Smith‚ Jeremy Bentham‚ Alexis de Tocqueville‚ Immanuel Kant‚ John Stuart Mill (Vincent‚ 2014‚ p. 27). While it was initially an ideology that did not approve of governmental intervention in the economic activities‚ in the modern world it allows a definite extent of controlling and regulating as well as contributing to
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Confucianism places a great deal of emphasis on the family‚ viewing all human relationships and institutions as patterned after or based on its model. Confucian familism stands in sharp contrast to the strong individualism traditionally associated with capitalism and liberal democracy. It has also been proven that Confucianism has not been an obstacle on the road to industrialization and capitalist development‚ if needed it has contributed in a positive fashion. For many in Confucian families
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