Encyclopedia_of_Political_Thought

the economic policies of the king and formed the basis for Quesnay’s system of natural economic law. The Tableauused the example ...

R racism The idea or attitude that the human species is separated into different races (European, African, Asian, etc.) and ethn ...

rate. The rise of LIBERALISM, CAPITALISM, and DEMOCRACY has tended to break down many characteristics of racism because they emp ...

The complexity of definition of reason, then, makes the concept of little use unless it is carefully explained and thoroughly de ...

taxed to provide help to the poor and weak in society (through funding public education, public housing, health care, unemployme ...

RELIGION, and social values, explaining his popularity among even some traditional DEMOCRATIC PARTYsup- porters. Further Reading ...

reification A concept in MARXIST, COMMUNIST, and CRITICAL THEORY philosophy that describes the reverse of the proper relationshi ...

MEDIEVAL CATHOLICtheory (St. Thomas AQUINAS) is more positive about the possibility of rulers represent- ing the nation’s common ...

sented republican government as the appropriate CHURCH-AND-STATEstructure for the Protestant “priest- hood of all believers.” Jo ...

tion of October 1917, and the Chinese (Communist) revolution of 1949. Leading revolutionary leaders include Thomas JEFFERSON, Ro ...

the valuable past institutions, cultures, and habits. He saw the British and American revolutions as orderly, rational, and pres ...

Right politics have tended to be very antiCOMMU- NIST, while Leftists were more sympathetic to commu- nism. Rightists tend to be ...

Further Readings Harrell, D. E., Jr. Pat Robertson.San Francisco: Harper & Row, 1988. Robertson, Pat. Shout It From the Hous ...

and decadent, and this moral weakness was beginning to destroy the economic, political, and military foun- dations of the empire ...

poor and weak and a general PACIFISM. Up to the 1980s Romantic trends have appeared in the United States, such as the movement t ...

that he influenced, Rousseau sees humans’ environ- ment as molding their character. He elevates the primi- tive, tribal human (t ...

diverse populations with a uniform legal code applied by Roman officials. Such legalism continued in the West through CATHOLIC C ...

Russell’s utopian optimism held that human evil could be educated out of people by training children’s “creative impulse” and en ...

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S Saint-Simon, Claude-Henri de Rouvroy, count de (1760–1825) French political and economic thinker; founder of socialism One of ...