Liberals don’t believe that a balanced and tolerant society will develop naturally out of the free actions of individuals. Liberals fear that free individuals may want to exploit others if it is in their interest to do so. Therefore our liberty requires that they are restrained from encroaching on our freedom and vice versa. Such protection can only be provided by a sovereign state capable of restraining all individuals and groups within society. While liberals are convinced of the need for government
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which a man is seen as a social animal‚ who prefers to live in a social group rather than alone. Socialists assert that action taken by people in organised groups is likely to be more effective than the sum of many individuals’ actions. Socialists have traced the origins of competition and inequality to the ownership of private property‚ namely the ownership of productive wealth capital. Socialists believe that private property is unjust‚ as wealth which is produced by collective effort should
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where the Earth is unable to keep up in the struggle to regenerate” (Shah). Habitat fragmentation is occurring in all major habitats found throughout the world at various speeds and levels of severity. Habitat fragmentation is detrimental to a species’ sustainability in the given environment and the ecosystems biodiversity‚ and can oftenly drive species into extinction. Habitats that were continuous at one point have been divided into many isolated sections due to humans clearing the natural vegetation
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WHYWHY DID THE GERMANS SUPPORT THE NAZI PARTY There were many problems in post- World War One Germany. Among them were the political problems which included the three uprisings‚ The Spartacist Rebellion in 1919 which revolted across Germany eventually establishing a brief communist state in the province of Bavaria. There was The Kapp Putsch in 1920 who tried to overthrow the new republic and there was The Munich Beer Hall Putsch in 1923 that was led by Adolf Hitler and attempted to overthrow the
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Nature of Politics • Politics is that process through which authoritative allocation of value that takes place in society. • Its concerned with who get what when and how or allocation of scare resources. • It’s about conflict management: it involves disagreements and reconciliation of these disagreements. “If there is conflict‚ there is politics.” • Negative: when you desire it so much that scarcity pushes you to do unwanted things. Focus in POLISCI: • Politics is the process by
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Political Participation in Liberal Democracy People participate in politics to influence policy decision for beter life or beter future by voting‚ interest groups‚ labor unions‚ associations and party membership. There are 3 groups ; Gladiators (Elites) : a small proportion of gladiators who fight the political battle. For instance‚ the activist campaigners. Spectators: a large group og spectators who observe the contest but rarely participate beyond voting. Apathetics: a substantial number
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Political Power Many political philosophers would argue that political science is nothing more than the study of political decision-making and how it affects the daily lives of the populous. Politically‚ having the ability to influence others is a very strong power that beckons responsibility. In order to obtain this‚ one must be able to convince others that what is being requested or instructed is being done in the best interest of the person and populous‚ in the name of the common good. Political
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Why and how have liberals supported the fragmentation of political power? (15) Why Liberals are concerned about power‚ most basically‚ because power constitutes a threat to liberty. Their concern about concentrations of power is rooted in their emphasis upon individualism and its implication that human beings are rationally self- interested creatures. Egoism determines that those who have the ability to influence behaviour of others are inevitably inclined to use that ability for their own benefit
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DOES SOCIAL MEDIA HAVE POLITICAL POWER? A couple of years ago we saw how Twitter was being used as a tool for collaboration during a time of unrest in Iran. In the past few years‚ the role of blogs and cell phones has helped everyday Cubans learn about the outside world previously shut out through traditional media outlets. And uncensored access to Google in China has made headlines in the past couple of years as well. Now given the situation in Northern Africa‚ including the shutdown of Internet
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Fragmentation of Society In “The Fragmentation of Social Life” by D. Stanley Eitzen‚ he explains how at this moment many people are at their prime. Everything is going well for them but what they don’t realize is the problem the society is facing as a whole; that problem being the fragmentation of social life. He categorizes the way society is fragmented‚ into four parts. First‚ being the excessive individualism‚ followed by heightened personal isolation‚ widening income and wealth gap and the
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