Saturday, June 28, 2008

swastikam



Now days the word swastika is very debating the people of east and the people of east and the people of the west. The word swastika is comes form the Sanskrit word savastika. The word savastika means “good to be suffix”. Many cultures of many different countries used this sign; like Japan, china, India etc. the sing swastika was used to represent life, sun, power, strength and good luck in many culture of the eastern people. So the people of eastern part thought this is the sing of piece. But in the year of 1920 Adolf Hitler decided that the Nazi party needed their own flag. For this flag Hitler used the sing of swastika. On August 7th 1920 at the Slazburg Congress, this flag become the official emblem of the Nazi party. For this reason people of the western countries thought the sing of swastika is the symbol of hate, anti-Semitism, violence, death and murder.

http://history1900s.about.com/cs/swastika/a/swastikahistory.htm

Sunday, June 15, 2008

The Social Construction Of Reality - II

"Wag the Dog" is all about the political situation before the election in United States. This movie also carries a serious relation between politics and media. Only for getting sympathy from public, the President of United States made a fake war against Albania. They used the name Albania because the name sound sinister and the people of United States do not know much about Albania. For this reason, it is very easy for the president of United States to arrange a fake war. To get out from sex Scandal and also wanting to win the election, president used the media and the media did well. After that he became more famous then the past people believe in media as much as they can. They Influenced by the media and they don’t want to justify, what media shows is that right or wrong. We believe what media brings to us that are true and this is also a reality. This reality came to us from the past political and social situation.

Saturday, June 7, 2008

Social construction of reality

Edmund Burke

Edmund Burke(12 January 17299 July 1797) was an Anglo-Irish statesman, author, orator, political theorist, and philosopher who served for many years in the British House of Commons as a member of the Whig party. He is mainly remembered for his support of the American colonies in the dispute with King George III and Great Britain that led to the American Revolution and for his strong opposition to the French Revolution. The latter made Burke one of the leading figures within the conservative faction of the Whig party (which he dubbed the "Old Whigs"), in opposition to the pro-French-Revolution "New Whigs", led by Charles James Fox. He also published a philosophical work. In this work he attempted to define Emotions and Passions as well as how they are triggered in a person. He is often regarded by conservatives as the philosophical founder of Anglo-American conservatism.

Niccolo Machiavelli

Niccolo Machiavelli Living from 1469 to 1527, Niccolo Machiavelli saw what we now consider the height of the Italian Renaissance- a period that produced some of Italy's greatest achievements in the arts and sciences, but that also produced horrible scandals and the establishment of foreign domination over the peninsula. Brought up while members of the powerful Medici family were masters of Florence, he studied the classics and learned to read and write in Latin He was a diplomat, a student of history, and a writer of comedy- and his sharp and unique insights changed the face of political science forever.


Renaissance


Renaissance was the cultural movement of Europe which was happened the 14th to the 17th century. it encompassed a revival of learning based on classical sources, the development of linear perspective in painting, and gradual but widespread educational reform. Traditionally, this intellectual transformation has resulted in the Renaissance being viewed as the "bridge" between the Middle Ages and the Modern era.


The term Doctrinaire Radicalism refers to socio-cultural reforming or revolutionary activities which doesn’t even care whether human lives or certain happiness is harmfully affected for itself or not. It is certainly a devastating way of reforming human thoughts, e.g. the activities of revolutionaries had tried to do in The French Revolution in 1789.

As we, the human being are social creature and more precisely can’t live alone, naturally our way of whether thinking or living is vastly induced by many social facts like our interaction with others in our society, more specifically the persons around us. And a huge portion of it comes by inheriting from our ancestors. So what happens, even the concept of “Reality” or “Unreality” is also actually is nothing but a made up concept, inherited from past. That’s why it is called the reality which is Socially Constructed.

the word A priori’ is used to distinguish between deductive and inductive way of thinking. A person can study over his social errors caused by inductive thinking and must get some Notions from its research. As its impact the notion can totally change the point of view/the way of thinking from experiential to logical. Thus the new notion got from the experimental process is called 'A priori'.