Authoritarianism

Stanford Prison Experiment conveyed oppression as well as the abuse of power, but also offered a glimpse of how members of low-status groups develop a shared identity. The participants involved scored greater on examines that measure aggressiveness, authoritarianism, and narcissism, than on those that measure empathy and altruism. Many psychologist…

The Japanese occupation of Korea remains controversial; for most Koreans it was a time of national subjugation shame and betrayal, political authoritarianism and violence, and profound human suffering (Schoppa 269). Japanese colonizers in Korea operate different technique to make Koreans more like Japanese by forcing them speak Japanese, take away their identity, and help them in the war against western powers. Japanese want to unify all East Asian countries under their empire. But all this…

forty-thousand people were executed or died in prison (@). Although this revolution did not end with a democratic government as many had originally hoped, the outcome of this revolution was the advent of a modern form of government: popular authoritarianism under the young French general, Napoleon Bonaparte…

He believed that all individual possessed the natural right of reason and argumentation, that each individual has the capacity to discover truth and also undermine the Roman Catholic authoritarianism. Although Descartes was a devoted Catholic, this belief gave support to the Protestant affirmation of the supremacy of individual conscience. 2. The world is understandable through laws of nature and science and can be subjected to the control…

The NSA has violated the fundamental moral obligation of the government since they have been continuing surveillance specifically on Muslim communities. The NSA has formed the United States into a surveillance state that particularly targets specific races. Local and federal agencies are monitoring community outreach meetings in order to obtain data of the Muslims in that area. The government is investigating Muslim student organizations in colleges without any evidence of criminal activity.…

One of the causes of the Sri Lankan Civil War, which falls under external influence, is colonialism. Sri Lanka was under British colonial rule from 1796-1948. The British implemented the divide and rule tactic when governing Sri Lanka, where minority groups, in this case Tamils, are given preferential treatment. This is to aggravate differences between the Sinhalese majority and Tamil minority. This way, the majority group that was being discriminated against would direct their grievances…

As you can see, of all new democracies, Korea ranked highest among those believing in leftism that is, perhaps troublingly so, sympathetic with the authoritarian communism of the past. This helps us better understand their conclusion when they say “With this leftward shift in ideological identifications, South Korea became one of the most left-wing new democracies in a relatively short period of democratization. More noteworthy than this shift alone is the fact that most South Koreans who…

In the assertion, Democracy In America, written by Alexis De Tocqueville, a French diplomat, political scientist, and historian, Tocqueville addresses that we, Americans, do have a political science well-formulated to modern democracy and democratic society, and thus, lacking the necessary tools to effectively understand and manage this new form of government. Tocqueville also suggests democracy and equality are not entirely ‘good things’ as they may leave long-lasting negative impacts in…

1984, a political novel written by George Orwell in 1948, is one of Orwell’s most famous texts. The story unravels in a dystopia where the state enforces absolute well-being amongst social classes and prevents rebellion of any sort by means of torture, suppression and isolation. In this world, lower class citizens, hereby known as The Proles, are described to be under the poorest conditions. The proles have a strong parallel with the working class described by Orwell on his novels Homage to…

measured restraint and limited vengeance. It even shows a further contrast in how Jesus’ mercy doesn’t even allow that limited reprisal at some points. Confucius emphasized strongly on the fact that the foundation of justice is based on ultimate authoritarianism. The author compares this to the similar manner in which the foundation of justice in the Bible is based on…