... policy sciences since the passing of the 'Cold War'. Not withstanding millions of words, it remains a contested concept that cannot simply be 'assumed'. There is no inevitability or inexorable logic to it. Globalisation must not be seen as a homogeneous or totalising process but one in which economic, socio-political and cultural dynamics (both historical and immediate) and sub national, ... Council of Economic Advisers--have conceded that they were insensitive to 'the kind of chaos that financial liberalisation could provoke'. As former Commerce Secretary Ron Brown noted It is easy in...

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... our days (overhead II). They are, in fact, already enumerated in the official documents of the EU (for instance in the recent Declaration of Laeken. Questions are (a) whether the community of those sharing these values already generates a European people, even an European Demos", and, if so, (b) whether the ... in paper and perfection. "But it works" as Walter Bagehot stated a hundred and thirty years ago when he denied the British constitution a transcendent intellectual logic. "Le style est l'homme meme » (as we know since le Comte de Buffon, 1753). Could it be that the style of a con...

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... this conception of truth and suggests how reason, not authority (i.e. Aristotle, Ptolemy, Aquinas, ect.), should be the spearhead of a sound methodology, further breaking with medieval conceptions of logic. This break ultimately culminated in the production of a new way to combat the skepticism of the moral and religious crises of the early modern period, and led the populous to ... Though Descartes and other proponents of the scientific revolution rejected Aquinas" coldly intellectual method, they drew on the general premise of Aquinas" goal of applying intellect to deeply meaningful q...

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... , and not only did it affect Martin Luther in his reformation to Protestantism. But witchcraft also affected another reformer. A reformer named Jean Calvin. "Jean Calvin brought the remarkable rigor and logic of his mind, the clarity and forcefulness of his prose, and the total commitment of his soul to the service of the Protestant Reformation; these same qualities are all manifest ... the reasons for these tragedies were, having no idea of what was causing this Black Death, those are reasons of paranoia, which could have been helped by knowledge. This is easy for us to say today becaus...

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