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The Casino Of Meteorology And Life On Earth If you think about thunder and thunderstorms, far from seeing them as threatening, you should see that they are beneficial and luck bringers; without them, life on Earth would have never appeared or developed. Are Democracies Decaying? Plato and Macchiavelli already pondered about what would eventually happen with any democracy, thanks to their leaders. They both concluded that it is highly likely that they will end transformed into some form of tyranny. On Liberty And Equality This essay deals with the meaning of liberty and equality as seen by Plato, Locke, Rousseau and Marx, but before entering into the formal aspects of their views it is necessary to comment about other aspects that are incumbent to the matter: any analysis regarding what different authors have to say about any concept defined by apparently precise terms is usually infected by a certain temptation to make a literal comparison between their ideas. On Plato’s Notion Of Equality Works such as Plato's Republic are ample, and discussions about them can take very different paths; on the matter of egalitarianism, two apparently different positions deserve mention: in Book VII, Plato comments about the democratic man. 'The man who believes in legal equality' is described as a complex person, full of characters, a prisoner of his appetites. On Plato's Notion Of Liberty In the description of his ideal city or state, the Kallipolis, Plato specifies his ideas about freedom of speech, belief and choice of vocation; he is the ultimate aristocrat and therefore, anything that can possibly conspire against his model is against the objective good. On Plato's Notion Of Authority Plato says that his Kallipolis is just a model, and thus, protects his ideas from easy criticism, so, before attempting to analyse Plato's work, it is necessary to say something about this device used in the 'Republic' so as not to receive a retort that waves this justification: the question about an eventual implementation of his plan is cleverly avoided and stated as misguided by stating that the creation of the Kallipolis was for the sake of a model. The Alleged Theory of Intelligent Design Does Not Belong To Science, And Not Even To Religion In recent times, certain people undoubtedly associated with a religious agenda has been promoting an alternative view to Darwin's theory on the evolution of species and indeed, on the origin of life as well. This people is trying to make it appear as if their points for view were scientific, but they are in fact, religious and have nothing to do with natural sciences. Creationism Versus Respectable Science and Belief Recently in the United States, a whole debate over whether creationism should be taught on an equal basis with the theory of evolution of Darwin - Mendel has been unfolding. This is a dangerous situation because by political and even judicial means, the fraction of the public and groups that support the creationist 'theory' are attempting to redefine what is science and what is not, and this is something that the world has only witnessed under the duress of authoritarian regimes. Creationism Is A Belief And Not A Scientific Theory Creationism is an idea that states that the universe and life could not have sprouted just by coincidence, but as the design of an intelligent being because these are far too complicated things and as such, they supposedly could not have appeared by chance. Science Or Scavenging? The most extraordinary way to win the lottery - or something like that - is to find a new or valuable fossil from an unknown or barely studied species: A well-preserved dinosaur skull can easily command prices ranging into millions of euros, but that's not necessarily good for science. Is The State A True Necessity? We people are accustomed to think that beyond the sovereignty of a state underlies some sort of God's will, and thus, the state and political institutions are indispensable but guess what? They are not, by far.

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