Political Ideologies and the Democratic Ideal

Ball, Terence; Dagger, Richard; O’Neill, Daniel

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“…Over thousands of years, humanity has witnessed many different political thinking represented by many key historic political philosophers [19][20][21][22][23][24] like Confucius, Plato, Aristotle, Machiavelli, Locke, Jefferson, Madison, Kant, Marx, Hayek, and many others. Some popular recent political philosophies include authoritarianism, conservatism, liberalism, socialism, communism, anarchism, and environmentalism.…”

Section: Quantum Physics Replaces Traditional Political Philosophymentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The humanity governing problem is so difficult that the problem remains largely unsolved after works over thousands of years by some greatest thinkers [19][20][21][22][23][24][29][30][31][32][33][34][35][36][37][38][39][40][41][42][43][44][45][46] in the history of humanity: Confucius, Plato, Aristotle, Machiavelli, Locke, Washington, Jefferson, Madison, Kant, Marx, Einstein, Hayek, and many others. While there are great progresses made through experimentations by pioneer politicians and reasoning of political philosophies through ages, there are also epic mistakes made like communism, fascism, Islamism, many wars, and other political movements.…”

Section: The Question: How Should Humanity Govern Itselfmentioning

confidence: 99%

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A Physics Solution to the Hardest Problem in Social Science: Physics Foundation of Permanent World Peace

Wayne

2014

SSRN Journal

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One problem is standing out above all others in social science: how should humanity govern itself? The problem is so important that all wars of humanity in the past, present, and future, are directly related to this problem. Despite the fact that this problem has attracted interests of some greatest thinkers for thousands of years: Confucius, Plato, Aristotle, Machiavelli, Locke, Washington, Jefferson, Madison, Kant, Marx, Einstein, Hayek, and many others, yet the problem remains unsolved. The latest thinking on this humanity governing problem by mainstream social scientists is represented by views of Friedrich Hayek. In his writings, Hayek repeatedly warned that we must shed the illusion that we can deliberately create the future of mankind. This paper disagrees with Hayek and proves for the first time that this problem is solvable scientifically applying recentlycreated physics laws of social science, if the problem is formulated in a correct way: what kind of governing political structure of humanity is most stable? Most-stable structure problems appear routinely in the theoretical and experimental condensed matter physics. We show that the humanity governing problem is equivalent to find an equilibrium political structure of a human society, which is a many-body physics problem 100% solvable using the maximum entropy approach widely-used in the condensed matter physics. This paper establishes the framework and methodology of quantum politics and replaces traditional political philosophy with quantum physics as the solid foundation of political science, and analyzes the equilibrium political structure of a human society. The main results are quite surprising: (1) Quantum physics does provide a firm scientific foundation for social science. For the first time, political science, economics, and other social science become branches of quantum physics just like optics and chemistry. (2) Quantum physics says that we can create free, fair, just, peaceful, and prosperous human societies. We prove that there is certainly no better alternative than the equilibrium political structure, which is defined by a set of 16 democratic principles. (3) The existing democratic governments in the world can be improved in significant ways. For example, there are many fundamental design flaws in the US constitution. American civil wars, slavery, epidemic gun violence, and run away government debts are some direct results of design flaws of the US constitution. (4) Quantum physics clearly says that there is a global political equilibrium state, which corresponds to the permanent world peace. This paper provides a theoretically-sound and practical solution to eliminate the nuclear, biological, chemical, robotic, and other forms of weapons of massive destruction. In the long run, humanity can grow up and will put an end to deaths, miseries, and economic destruction caused by wars, which have been plagued us since the dawn of humanity.

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Section: Quantum Physics Replaces Traditional Political Philosophymentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: The Question: How Should Humanity Govern Itselfmentioning

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A Physics Solution to the Hardest Problem in Social Science: Physics Foundation of Permanent World Peace

Wayne

2014

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“…This includes exploiting the naiveté or ignorance of others, making statements that are disingenuous or misleading and refusing to disclose matters that might not be favorable to their cause. The other perspective advocates a more idealistic conception of public debate, and advocates a more fully informed and less partisan conception of public dialog (Ball, Dagger, and O'Neill 2014). Scientific bodies have traditionally aligned with this latter perspective, though the same cannot be said for corporations and other private groups with a specific interest in seeing a given technology move forward.…”

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The roles of ethics in gene drive research and governance

Thompson

2018

Journal of Responsible Innovation

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Ethics research queries the norms and values that shape the goals and justification for gene drive projects, and that might lead to issue or opposition to such projects. A framework for organizing ethics research is offered. In addition to basic research ethics and risk assessment, gene drives will give rise to questions about the fiduciary responsibilities of scientists, democratizing technology, and the links between epistemology and social power relations. A final category of ethical issues covers the way in which research on norms and values is organized, funded and integrated into other aspects of a gene drive project. ARTICLE HISTORY

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“…Sustainability is a term used to frame the human responsibility for a non-exploitative attitude and, complementary to it, we find environmental ethics as an orientation to an ethical system where humans are still privileged, but hold a greater concern for the destruction produced by the anthropocentric dominant view. The "from having to being" concept is concerned with the limited availability of natural resources, and embeds a strong critique of materialism and consumerism (Ball, Dagger & O'Neil 2014).…”

Section: Political Ideologies In the Mediamentioning

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Mapping press ideology. A methodological proposal to systematise the analysis of political ideologies in newspapers

Schena

Almirón

Pineda

2018

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Ideology and political ideologies in general have been addressed both from theoretical and applied perspectives by media and communication scholars in an attempt to reveal whether pluralism is present or absent in the media. However, the complexity of such a task has proven to be high as well as very problematic. The efforts to systematise the study of ideology in the media in order to make it objective and systematic have been scarce. This paper tries to contribute to such systematising by providing a method to analyse political ideologies in the media that aims to be objective and replicable in the political context of Western democracies. Our work was inspired by previous studies that were mostly conducted in the field of political sciences and political communication. The main goal of this paper is to reach a deeper comprehension of ideology, in general, and political ideology in particular, and to conceptualise a method that aims to be instrumental in the analysis of the media from the viewpoint of political ideologies but without being restricted by traditional labels that may reproduce cultural biases. The theoretical-analytical method here suggested addresses ideologies in newspapers to identify worldviews according to four general values: individualism, communitarianism, egalitarianism and elitism.

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Political Ideologies and the Democratic Ideal

Cited by 16 publications

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A Physics Solution to the Hardest Problem in Social Science: Physics Foundation of Permanent World Peace

A Physics Solution to the Hardest Problem in Social Science: Physics Foundation of Permanent World Peace

The roles of ethics in gene drive research and governance

Mapping press ideology. A methodological proposal to systematise the analysis of political ideologies in newspapers

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