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| | Geertz, "Ideology as a Cultural System" |
 | | Theirs was a facsimile concept of political organization, one in which the reflection of the supernatural order microscopically mirrored in the life of the capital was in turn further and more faintly reflected in the countryside as a whole, producing a hierarchy of less and less faithful copies of an eternal, transcendent realm. | | | The fundamentals of the interest theory are too well known to need review; developed to perfection of a sort by the Marxist tradition, they are now standard intellectual equipment of the man-in-the-street, who is only too aware that in political argumentation it all comes down to whose ox is gored. | | | As a cultural system, an ideology that has developed beyond the stage of mere sloganeering consists of an intricate structure of interrelated meaningsÑ interrelated in terms of the semantic mechanisms that formulate themÑof which the two-level organization of an isolated metaphor is but a feeble representation. |
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http://xroads.virginia.edu/~DRBR/geertz.html
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| | ELDER - LoveToKnow Article on ELDER |
| | The office of elder is in its origin political and is a relic of the old patriarchal system. | | | It was through the influence of Judaism that the originally political office of elder passed over into the Christian Church and became ecclesiastical. | | | According to the Presbyterian theory of church government there are two classes of elders teaching elders, or those specially set apart to the pastoral office, and ruling elders, who are laymen, chosen generally by the congregation and set apart by ordination to be associated with the pastor in the oversight and government of the church. |
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http://www.1911encyclopedia.org/E/EL/ELDER.htm
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| | Postmodernism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | That the projects of the Enlightenment and modernity are alive and well can be seen in the justice system, in science, in political rights movements, in the very idea of universities; and so on. | | | The movement has had diverse political ramifications: its anti-ideological insights appear conducive to, and strongly associated with, the feminist movement, racial equality movements, gay rights movements, most forms of late 20th century anarchism, even the peace movement and various hybrids of these in the current anti-globalization movement. | | | In this context it has been used by many critical theorists to assert that postmodernism is a break with the artistic and philosophical tradition of the Enlightenment, which they characterize as a quest for an ever-grander and more universal system of aesthetics, ethics, and knowledge. |
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| | Political Philosophy [Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy] |
| | Politically, socialists claim that the free market system (capitalism) should be replaced or reformed, with most arguing for a radical redistribution of resources (usually to workers i.e., those socialists deem who do not presently own anything) and for the state or some form of democratic institution to take over the running of the economy. | | | Its political meaning is a social and political system without a state or more broadly a society that is characterized by a lack of any hierarchical or authoritarian structures. | | | Simmering in the background, it must also be noted, are theological-political philosophies that deny any primacy to the individual or to the group in favor of the supreme status of the divine realm. |
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http://www.utm.edu/research/iep/p/polphil.htm
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| | Marjorie Orr |
| | The five main world religions - Islam, Buddhism, Hinduism, Christianity and Judaism - all have astrology as part of their belief system. | | | It is believed that they were immigrants from further east towards present-day Afghanistan, and that astrology split even earlier going east into China, forming the basis of a slightly different system and west into the beginnings of what we use today in Western Astrology. | | | ASTROLOGY is an information source which mysteriously links the positions of planets in the solar system at birth to the later personality of people born at a particular time, and tracks the influences which affect them through their lives. |
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http://www.star4cast.com/aboutastrology.asp
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| | DPD Chapter 2: The Locus of Development, the Micro-Macro Connection, and Exact Specification |
| | The political cultural system, not the individual or social systems, is the locus of development. | | | These are the concerns of conflict-oriented symbolic interactionism (e.g., Kemeny, 1976), which explores differences in individual beliefs about the operant cultural system. | | | The cultural system is prescriptive, and its prescriptions are subject to moral evaluation; the social system is descriptive, and its descriptions are subject to scientific evaluation. |
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http://www.d.umn.edu/~schilton/Articles/DPD2.html
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| | Elder über Schöningh: "Kontrolliert die Justiz" |
| | With regard to the problems of the jury system that developed after the Emminger reforms (1924), the perjury trials crisis, and criminal law reform, leftists voiced suggestions, some of which were taken up in Parliament, but like so many initiatives they failed to survive the political impasses of party politics. | | | Further, without a systematic consideration of the German Left itself, or the possibility of a plurality of political and philosophical dispositions within the judiciary, Schöningh's conclusions about a >lack< of republican political culture in Weimar are at best tentative. | | | At issue is not whether or not a particular system is accepted, according to Schöningh, but rather "welche Identifikationsmuster dieser Bejahung oder Ablehnung zugrundeliegen, vor allem, woraus sie resultieren" (S. Seen from the perspective of the German courts and the left-wing reporting, German political culture was anti-democratic and conservative. |
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http://www.iasl.uni-muenchen.de/rezensio/liste/elder.html
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| | Political Liberalism as Secular Religion |
| | Note that political liberals have long ago rejected Plan C, the collective wisdom of the classical tradition. | | | The last point raises a particularly frightening scenario for those liberals who lack refuge in “Plan B” (i.e., the resort to the supporting infrastructure of a transcendent, stable belief system supported by a community of co-believers, in effect, to religion). | | | A short list of the defining “positions” of political liberals would include the common liberal sentiments (opposition to racism, the devaluation of women and the concern for the protection of the quality of the natural environment, which are mainstream issues and sentiments widely shared by moderates and conservatives). |
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http://www.jaygaskill.com/liberalismasreligion.htm
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| | Jihad Watch: No to Political Islam |
| | Since Muhammed was a temporal ruler, by definition, islam became a political ideology that is, in the eyes of the true believers, a system that was perfected during the reign of the prophet. | | | I say NO to political Islam myself, but their history is half truths. | | | (Thanks to Jonathan for the link.) Their statement that "Political Islam is a movement that arose in the 1940s as a reaction to foreign domination and political corruption" is demonstrably false; political Islam is as old as the Prophet Muhammad, and I provide an abundance of proof of this in Onward Muslim Soldiers. |
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http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/002572.php
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| | Rawls' Political Liberalism by Andy Blunden |
| | The central concepts of his theory of political liberalism are: the “original position&;; “justice as fairness&;; “overlapping consensus& the right reasons”; “public reason”; “rational” and “reasonable”; counting one another as “free and equal”; “self-standing” conceptions; “political” conceptions; “comprehensive doctrine&;; a “well-ordered system of social cooperation”. | | | That is, let us provisionally accept that his political ethics flows from its situation in the negotiations between the elected legislators of an “existing democracy&;, and ask what kind of justice and social cooperation can the most reasonable possible behaviour by such agents, provide for the citizenry at large? | | | Rawls&; political liberalism does not answer any of the substantial questions of justice in bourgeois society; it simply advises that when someone comes forward with a legitimate claim and is capable of bringing its opponents to the negotiating table, then it should be dealt with reasonably. |
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| | 20th WCP: Justification of Political Liberalism and the Catholic Paradox |
| | At the other extreme in a democratic political system there can not be an official religion, nor any religion which wields excessive political force compelling adherence to its comprehensive views. | | | Rawls declares tha political liberalism reveals that the most appropriate and reasonable conception of justice in a democratic society marked by pluralism is one which allows comprehensive doctrines to affirm this political conception and join in an overlapping consensus. | | | The upshot of all this is that Rawls fails to justify the principles of political liberalism. |
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http://www.bu.edu/wcp/Papers/Soci/SociMagy.htm
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| | To use the language of a moral or political conceptual system is to use and to reinforce that conceptual system." | | | Status Quo bias: The news media believe "the system works." During the "fiasco in Florida," recall that the news media were compelled to remind us that the Constitution was safe, the process was working, and all would be well. | | | There's no time or space to explain why this language difference matters (beyond political tactics) to the formation, implementation, and evaluation of policy. |
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| | Cultural Policy Of Serbia |
| | Among others, formal introduction of parlamentary multiparty system (with all political power nevertheless concentrated in the Socialist Party which was in power), and new republican Constitution were worth mentioning. | | | Though there is no coherent cultural policy without an ideology as a coherent set of political objectives, social values, beliefs and meanings (as was socialism, for example), still it could be said that in the last decade of the 20th century a concept of reaffirmation of the Serbian national and cultural identity prevailed. | | | Such an administration should know how to transform the old planned system with its rigid bureaucratic structure into a modern, flexible and rational one, turned to the efficient and effective satisfaction of needs of society as a whole as well as of individuals it is made of. |
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| | Political Correctness - The Facilitator Of Terrorism |
| | Don't kid yourself political correctness is a movement, a system of thought, a religion. | | | Nowadays, however, political correctness is also considered the proper standard for conducting the life of the nation. | | | Political correctness has become the standard by which everything that affects society is judged. |
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| | Political Pluralism in Modern Arab Islamic Thought |
| | In his opinion, political pluralism is a necessity because it is not possible for any political system to be set up in modern times while denying the people the right to differ, to disagree and to exercise their rights to free expression and assembly. | | | The task of an Islamic political order would merely be to see that social and religious relations are harmonised through dialogue, consultation and consensus. | | | The same, he believed, would apply to the freedom of political practice and opinion by leading administrators who endeavour to interpret and apply rules and provisions in accordance with the laws of their own countries. |
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| | The occurrence and spread, for instance, of Astarte figurines during the early Iron age across the Aegean into the Middle East is an example of a similar kind of civilizational complex that is obviously associated with a religious system of belief and worship. | | | Cultural selection permitted human groups to achieve a form of systemic integration, or rather a functional integration, that came to characterize the configuration of cultural patterning, that was not otherwise possible. | | | No single culture may be the source of stimulus diffusion, rather it is the system of interconnection that results in the spread of new traits and complexes. |
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| | Scotland's Parliament: Devolution, the Media and Political Culture |
| | As my concern here is with political communication strictly understood, I shall limit myself to giving a brief account of some of the most significant Scottish news media, underlining how they differ from the London-based UK media. | | | For instance, BT has declared its interest in the restoration of trust in the political process, and underlined the role of IT in promoting electoral involvement through training and education and remote working for MSPs. | | | This view has a bearing on the present-day functioning of political communication in the United Kingdom because in reality the dominant model of the nation-state as a unitary political community, as a stable locus in which we speak to ourselves about politics and public affairs, is breaking down. |
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| | Political Islam - SourceWatch |
| | Whether Islam is itself inherently political, or capable of being made non-political, whatever that means | | | Among other things, the view that Islam is inherently alien, hostile and can only be dealt with militarily has been quite useful to the military-industrial complex trying to pitch new threats and new weapons to the Republican Party and Democratic Party, who have historically always bought into the story, and bought the weapon system. | | | The quite dangerous result of these repeated failures to comprehend, or fairly or fully describe political Islam, or tenuous first steps to democracy in the Islamic and especially Arab world, contributes to the general impression among Muslims that the so-called War on Terrorism is in fact a War on Islam. |
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http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Islamism
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| | Political liberalism - Encyclopedia of Political Information |
| | The political dominance of the liberal consensus even into the Nixon years can best be seen in policies such as the establishment of the Environmental Protection Agency or his (failed) proposal to replace the welfare system with a guaranteed annual income by way of a Negative income tax. | | | Liberals generally favor freedom of speech, freedom of the press, and other civil liberties, although the degree of their commitment to this is not necessarily absolute: for example, many liberals accept, or even support, limits on hate speech. | | | Liberalism was not necessarily incompatible with feminism or various ethnic empowerment movements, but they resulted in a critique of the liberal left as "pale, male, and stale," to borrow a phrase from a slightly later time. |
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| | University Press of Florida - Reading Room Features |
| | Governance is not political rule or a system of government but is a doctrine used to empower people through divine texts to counter the naked force, despotism, and totalitarianism of rulers. | | | Ideological, religious, and political radicalism is not based on the main Islamic doctrines on the world, religions, knowledge, and salvation. | | | The mixing of the religious and the political is not new and was upheld even by the Seceders (al-Khawarij) at the beginning of Islam in the seventh century. |
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http://www.upf.com/Mkt/samples/moussalli1.html
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| | Religious Diversity (Pluralism) |
| | Centre for the History of Religious and Political Pluralism, University of Leicester. | | | Someone is a religious non-exclusivist with respect to a given issue when she denies that the religious perspective of any basic theistic system or variant thereof is superior to all other religious perspectives on this issue. | | | A better, more honest salvific pluralism, we are told, is to acknowledge that each religion has its own path to salvation that may be either similar to or different from that of other religions. |
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| | Aristotle's Political Theory |
| | Politics is a practical science, since it is concerned with the noble action or happiness of the citizens (although it resembles a productive science in that it seeks to create, preserve, and reform political systems.) Aristotle thus understands politics as a normative or prescriptive discipline rather than as a purely empirical or descriptive inquiry. | | | Hence, Aristotelian political science is not confined to the ideal system, but also investigates the second-best constitution, the one which is the best that most city-states are capable of supporting. | | | For although it is worthy to attain it for only an individual, it is nobler and more divine to do so for a nation or city-state." (EN I.2.1094b7-10) Aristotle's political science encompasses the two fields which modern philosophers distinguish as ethics and political philosophy. |
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| | Aristotle's Political Theory |
| | Politics is a practical science, since it is concerned with the noble action or happiness of the citizens (although it resembles a productive science in that it seeks to create, preserve, and reform political systems.) Aristotle thus understands politics as a normative or prescriptive discipline rather than as a purely empirical or descriptive inquiry. | | | Hence, Aristotelian political science is not confined to the ideal system, but also investigates the second-best constitution, the one which is the best that most city-states are capable of supporting. | | | For although it is worthy to attain it for only an individual, it is nobler and more divine to do so for a nation or city-state." ( EN I.2.1094b7-10) Aristotle's political science encompasses the two fields which modern philosophers distinguish as ethics and political philosophy. |
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http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/aristotle-politics
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| | Political Conservatism and Classical Liberalism |
| | Communism was not the wave of the future but rather an evil and failed political and economic system that, as the Black Book of Communism detailed (6) was responsible for the life of over 100 million innocent people. | | | Of all the dispositions and habits, which lead to political prosperity, Religion and Morality are indispensable supports. | | | It is indeed socialism, and in its day it was much admired by the non-Communist intellectual left as exemplified by the following quotes from Hollanders book Political Pilgrims (7) |
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| | Author, lawyer, political commentator to speak on gender and power |
| | "Twenty-five years ago," says Estrich, a professor of law and political science at the University of Southern California and author of the book Sex & Power, "the women who were 'firsts' were supposed to have blazed a trail. | | | Author, lawyer, political commentator to speak on gender and power | | | Her books include Getting Away with Murder: How Politics Is Destroying the Criminal Justice System and Real Rape, both published by Harvard University Press. |
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| | Bali Caste and Clan |
| | The caste system of India, with its outcastes, the untouchables, is often compared in the popular imagination of the West to political systems of discrimination, like apartheid in South Africa, or "Jim Crow" in the United States. | | | The lower caste people are said to be the sisya, pupils, or disciples, of their upper caste surya, literally "sun" meaning patron. | | | Nations of caste can also be traced to the Bhagavad-Gita, meaning "Celestial Song," the part of the epic Mahabrata that is considered one of the most sublime and sacred of all the Hindu writings. |
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| | Northern Style Study Courses for Life |
| | But the danger remains that unless the protests are harnessed into a new political party within the mainstream democratic system, expressing genuine grievances of the people, they will lead into greater violence and be suppressed by the ruling authority of the day, bringing to an end the `unreal age' into which we have been born. | | | The New current political party has been said by some to have `borrowed' the Old and has not been born out of a genuine democratic movement from the people, and as such has very shallow ideological roots, thus leaving us once again with `the great chimera of (contemporary) British politics'. | | | What, then, was the political commentator we quoted from earlier seeing when he wrote `realignment has been the great chimera of postwar British politics (which) has been glimpsed and lost so often. |
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| | The Historical Roots of "Political Correctness" |
| | America as a nation is now dominated by an alien system of beliefs, attitudes and values that has become known as Political Correctness. | | | A review of the historical roots of Political Correctness would not be complete without reference to the psychological process of dialectical stages of operant conditioning by words that have been directed against the larger body of Western Man in the generic sense before Frankfurt School Critical Theory came to be applied against American white males. | | | The visible evidence that Political Correctness reigns supreme over the American landscape is not a nice sight for the eyes of a traditional American to behold. |
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| | Political Correctness Watch |
| | The fact of the matter is that Political Correctness has a history, a history that is much longer than many people are aware of outside a small group of academics who have studied this. | | | One of the underlying themes of political correctness is that if you change the language, you change the way people behave and thereby culture and society. | | | Cultural Marxism, or Political Correctness, says that all history is determined by power, by which groups defined in terms of race, sex, etc., have power over which other groups. |
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| | In these circumstances, a new wired political system is developing in which power and legitimacy have become tools for collections of widely scattered individuals motivated by common concerns and who can rapidly coalesce to articulate their views. | | | Political psychology research and theory focus on individual and group political phenomena in their political, social, and historical context. | | | Their basic view, as the authors say, is the Nazi credo, "God is with us." Other goals are Aryan superiority, capitalism, rigid religious and family customs, and promulgation of US nationalism and military might. |
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