Marcus Tullius Cicero was born on January 3, 106 B.C.E. and was murdered on December 7, 43 B.C.E. His life coincided with the decline and fall of the Roman Republic, and he was an important actor in many of the significant political events of his time, and his writings are […]
Encyclopedia
Political Prisoners | The Holocaust Encyclopedia
Nazi Persecution of Political Opponents After World War I (1914-1918), nationalist, right-wing political movements in Germany and Austria tended to see the nation in collective terms as a Volksgemeinschaft or national community. Racist nationalists on the extreme right of the political spectrum saw this collective as a voelkische Gemeinschaft, by […]
Aristotle: Politics | Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy
In his Nicomachean Ethics, Aristotle (384-322 B.C.E.) describes the happy life intended for man by nature as one lived in accordance with virtue, and, in his Politics, he describes the role that politics and the political community must play in bringing about the virtuous life in the citizenry. The Politics also provides analysis of […]
Political economy – Simple English Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Political economy was the original term for the study of production, the acts of buying and selling, and their relationships to laws, customs and government. It developed in the 17th century as the study of the economies of states which placed the theory of property in the theory of government.[1] […]
Simple English Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
A government is a group of people that have the power to rule in a territory, according to the law. This territory may be a country, a state or province within a country, or a region. Governments make laws, rules, and regulations, collect taxes and print money. Governments have systems […]
Society – New World Encyclopedia
A social network diagram A society is a grouping of individuals, which is characterized by common interest and may have distinctive culture and institutions. A “society” may refer to a particular ethnic group, such as the Nuer, to a nation state, such as Switzerland, or to a broader cultural group, […]