Reservation is always contentious and sentimental issue raises many concerns of the people. The policy reservation safeguards provided to Scheduled Castes Tribes Other Backward Classes has adversely affected unity solidarity nation. in India all about reserving access seats government jobs, educational institutions even legislatures certain sections population. can also be seen as positive disc...

Given the increasing influence of religious fundamentalism on politics (e.g. the Christian right in the United States or the Muslim fundamentalism associated with Al Qaeda), the question of how we can conceive of law and order, or society itself, without employing repressive ideals becomes more urgent. We need a way of conceptualizing the origin and process of idealization (which is necessary f...

rise in most European countries – North and South, East and West – and that they resort to anti-EU rhetoric to increase their political and electoral support. The combination of the global financial and economic crises (since 2008) with the specifically European sovereign debt crisis (since 2010) has only strengthened this trend. It is equally undeniable that mainstream parties now embrace some...

A certain political rhetoric is implicit and sometimes explicit in the advocacy of human genetic modification (indicating here both the enhancement and the prevention of disability). The main claim is that it belongs to a liberal tradition. From a perspective supplied by the history and philosophy of science rather than by ethics, the content of that claim is examined to see if such a self-desc...

We read two papers on Inequity Aversion by E. Fehr & K. Schmidt. We examine the structure and quality of their arguments and the use they make of rhetoric in their papers. I wish to thank 10 friends who read an earlier version of this pamphlet, and who helped me focus my arguments and moderate my excessively outraged tone.

Every silver lining has a cloud. The shift with development from food scarcity to food surplus is accompanied by rising obesity and all its associated health consequences. The steady reduction in mortality rates (until HIV/AIDS came along) has allowed people to live long enough to develop unpleasant chronic and degenerative diseases. And so with globalization, a process that has unquestionably ...

Specialised languages such as the language of economics and politics are continuously undergoing dynamic development particularly in the area of lexis which is constantly evolving to reflect a rapidly changing society. A large part of specialised language is made up of rhetorical figures. Each specialised language has its own means of persuasion, its own rhetorical devices. This study examines ...