Invention of God ‘seekers of the truth’, Philosophies throughout history

Descartes, one of the first significant philosophers gives first thoughts of existentialism saying “I think and therefore I am” showing an idea of a need for having reasons to prove existence. Both, Plato as a poet type of guide for religious and political matters and Aristotle, a political scientist, see justice as a right order of relations. Plato thinks that right order is between men themselves. Augustine, another philosopher, sees justice as a right order between men and God. Further on, in the history of a theological process, Empiricism and Idealism intruded into the history of ideas being scrutinised by Kant and Hegel, philosophers of the XVII and XVIII centuries. Empiricists stood against of idealists and believed in ‘change’ as a tool for intellectual development.
Where does God ‘stand’ in all those theories?

If we take that the existence is the synthesis of two opposites the analysis of God’s existence could look like this:
Thesis – God does not exist
Antithesis – God exists (and man has been created on the image of God- Catholic’s view)
Synthesis – Existence/ birth of an idea of invention of God for survival reasons (‘change in thinking’) this could prove Hegel’s theory that ‘God is made in the image of man’

If the idea of “God being made in the image of man” (Feuerbach/ Hegel), in another words, God was invented by a man, this means that the Synthesis has already resulted after a clash of the thoughts about the God’s existence. Effectively it means that God as an Almighty and metaphysical spirit from Eden does not exist (Thesis). The whole process of “Alienation” in Hegel’s theory would no longer direct people to reach eternity and connect back with God as an award for following the God’s Ten Commandments during their lives.

One of the philosophers of the XIX century, Karl Marx wrote a criticism of Feuerbach’s book about Jesus Christ. Feuberback agreed with Hegel in this book, but also said that, God is the result of a dialectical change rather than causing it. (ref.3) Moreover, materialism bacame a new way of thinking, the way that people are, depends on how do they lead their lives and what do they show by their moral behaviour rather than whether they obey God’s law or not. In Thesis on Feurbach, a new category of philosophers, known as instrumentalists was also created, “knowing by doing” (ref.3)

References:
1. Plato to NATO, Studies in Political thought, Brian Redhead
2. Bible/internet: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ten_Commandments
3. Winchester University Journalism Course
History and Context of Journalism Part III Lecture 1

What influences our political thoughts

First of all, it is our family that shapes our first political preferences and attitude towards power and role in the society. Depending on how open our family is. Some of the parents may be quite tolerant with guy relationships, for example, some of they may not be so familiar with it. And here, the first political thought can be created like following (or not) the New Labour party that “likes its conservative predecessors” and their traditional family values.

Secondly, our friends and colleagues can become our pressure groups, they may influence the way we dress, our musical taste or even attitude towards sex. Then there is obviously our education, through which the hidden message dictates where the children belong in the society (history about Kings and capitalist values- providing training foe work at schools as an “investment good”). There is also The Arts (print, Bible, educated work force) and Advertising (free market capitalism- “if everyone buys and sells wisely, all will be well”), playing a crucial role in our lives. The Advertising industry is trying to get to our heads and shape our desires as well as it is directly involved into politics as the Parties are investing vast amounts into selling themselves to the voters.

The Religion is a very significant element in our lives. Thanks to the English Reformation Church and the State were formally connected as the Church of England headed by the monarch ( Bishops sit in the House of Lords; monarch is crowded in the Westminster Abby). In 1980-90s Britain was under the influence of the Anglican Church as the “Conservative Party at Prayer” whose leaders were attacking neoliberal policies (Brits against support for US plans to attack Iraq).“Religion socialises people into accepting inequality and purveyed patriarchal values.” However, nowadays Britain has a little room for religion. “Faith in science replaced faith in God and Sunday shopping has replaced churchgoing.” Religion stands for non-capitalist values (9/11 attacks were seen as attacks on western materialism).

Finally, the press, Britain is quite a small country thus, most of the newspapers are national. They are divided into quality press- broadsheets and the working class-tabloids. Broadsheets readers seam to be best informed about politics, whereas, tabloid fans are not so much politically acknowledged. Tabloids, however, are at the moment most popular amongst both classes.

Referance: Kingdom J. (2003) Government and Politics in Britain
Winchester University Journalism Course People and Politics

Local government is as important as the Whitehall

“The strength of free peoples residents in the local community. Local institutions are to liberty what primary schools are to science.” Alexis de Tocqueville

Division between executive and legislature is described constitutionally.
The local level government level is represented by Town Hall (law making and tax raising powers), which runs the counties. The Town Hall’s legitimate authority is more limited than Whitehall. Local authorities are “multi- functional”and provide most state services. (protective, environmental, personal, recreational, commercial, promotional and regulatory).
Whitehall is the executive power in the UK government and it can over-rule local government. The Town Hall is also able to seek judicial review. There is quite a steady shifting of responsibilities, money and power from Local to Central Government.

Local governments aim to support the central government, it works for and on behalf of councils including “lobby government, opposition parties and others for changes in policy and legislation” as well as building a “strong and positive reputation for local government with the public.” It is also important for them to “support councils and their partnerships to continuously improve and be innovative.” They provide service at a “national level which support and are complementary to the regional and local support that councils receive.”

In fact local fulfils so many functions that, it is thought that, “In general we suffer from too much government- especially local government.” Norman Tebbit

References:
Winchester University Journalism Course People and Politics lecture week 5
Kingdom J. (2003) Government and Politics in Britain
http://www.local.gov.uk/lgv2/core/page.do?pageId=1
http://www.direct.gov.uk/en/index.htm
http://www.gwydir.demon.co.uk/uklocalgov/localtxt.htm

UK and its institutions- important facts

The classic definition of the sovereign’s power today is defined as “THE RIGHT TO BE CONSULTED, THE RIGHT TO ENCOURAGE, THE RIGHT TO WARN”.

UK has become Liberal Democracy after 1930 (there was no votes for women till then). UK is a constitutional monarchy and no parties (apart from terrorism) are illegal (pluralism). UK Government is based on two principles, Rule of Law (arrest without trial – terrorism legislation; Civil Law) and Separation of Powers (Constitutional division of government functions).
UK has three (four*) sections of the Constitution known as Estates. Legislature (Monarch in Parliament which contains of the House of Commons, House of Lords and Role of Monarch in WESTMINSTER), Executive (Prime Minister in Cabinet, WHITEHALL), and finally, Judiciary (independent courts determine, common law, interprets Acts of Parliament) which is headed by the Lord Chancellor who also sits in the Cabinet – THE HIGH COURT (The Strand). There is also additional fourth estate- Press (journalists), which is created thanks to freedom of speech, freedom of expression act.

Whitehall is incredibly important, it rules government, regulates relationships and limits the power in the UK. Its features are described by ‘fundamental law’, it is organic and flexible. The sources of the UK constitutional law are Statute (laws written, Magna Carta, 1215); Common Law & Interpretations. Further more, Conventions allow it to rule with ‘royal prerogative’, Quinn can arrest anyone, when a State act it acts on Royal Authoritative, which means that it is an active tool working. Works of Authority is the next feature; it is ‘Parliamentary Practice’ governing rules of House of Commons. Lastly, there are European Treaties, The English Constitution, and Introduction to the Law of the Constitution.

References:
Winchester University Journalism Course People and Politics, UK institutions and Whitehall
Political junkies http://www.ukpol.co.uk;House of Lords www.parliament.uk/works/lords.cfm; Government News Network www.gnn.gov.uk; Guide to the government www.number10.gov.uk/output/page30.asp

How british politics deals with its problems

"The truth, Sir, is that we have a chaos as regards authorities, a chaos as regards rates, and a worse chaos than all as regards areas." G.J. Goshen, House of Commons speech introducing bills to reform local government (1871)

References:
Winchester University Journalism Course
Politics in Britain by John Kingdom
People and Politics Module

Would ‘A-priori’ ideology serve today’s society?

“Cogito Ergo Sum” I think and therefore I am (Descartes)
Empiricism as a direct sense of experience, literal evidence of existence, leads to a constant chase after the proof.
John Locke, known as a father of Empiricism, and also as Dr Locke (as he qualified as a medical practitioner) once said “Don’t blindly follow conventions or authority, look at the effects and think for yourself.”
When he left school, he became involved in both, politics and medical research. He worked on his philosophical master peace during the Glorious Revolution in 1688, called “An essay concerning human understanding”.

Rationalism is exactly opposite idea, it’s about figuring the man and A priori (meaning at the beginning) is based on rationalism. It uses logic and is quite independent from sensory experiences. Materialists would argue that matter comes first and ideas arise from that matter, however idealists would say that a matter comes after ideas.

Empiricism leads to a “scientific method and highly effective technological advance” in society.
Empiricism drives technological development. Technology is changing our lives, it is a root to everything. we are living in the era of Digital Revolution which has evolved thanks to the technological developments, it can be quite surprising how highly demanding people can be in this rapidly the changing environment. A priori thought would definitely be not enough for modern society. In modern society, empirical approach to reality seams a lot more reasonable and reliable to base a thought or idea on.


References and inspiration:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m5jwktbnrZY&feature=related
Winchester University Journalism Course People and Politics, Lecture week 2 and research for the essay.

People and Politics, Pluralism

Nature of the state is the most important political concept. British State is about force and no one can opt out of it.
“The state benefits and it threatens", now it is “us” and often it is “them”. "It is an abstraction, but in its name men are jailed, or made rich on oil depletion allowances and defense contracts, or killed in wars.” (Ref.2)

Civil society plays an incredibly important part in the country.
“The strongest is never strong enough to be always the master, unless he transforms strength into right, and obedience into duty.” Jean Jacques Rousseau, The Social Contract (1762: ch.3)

The Dynamics of life is a relationship between the state and the society.
People living within the state are part of the society, being a part of the society they can create independent groups that are not ruled by the state.
All organisations created within the civil society are voluntary, civil forms of organisations and the state does not interfere in them unless the breach of law.

People start up or join up certain groups to express their various views and beliefs. (Churches, Clubs, grade unions, professional associations etc). With the moment they want to make a change or be influential through the group, their groups become pressure groups or effective pressure groups (Greenpeace). All of them coexist independently from the state and legally. Thanks to the pluralism in the state all the groups are allowed to work within the society helping the voices being heard.

If the state didn’t allow for the existence of the independent organisations and pressure groups the state would become totalitarian. We would have totalitarian society- and that is, as we know from history no good.

In totalitarian society everything is controlled by only one organisation, very often political part that runs everything. There would be no way to disagree with the state.
Just like it happened it the Nazi Germany, Russia or even with the ruling of Sadam Hussain.


Referances:
Winchester University Journalism Course People and Politics
Dunleavy, P. Oleary, B. (1987) Theories of the State, The politics of liberal democracy and the lecture about the Civil Society and Pressure Groups.

Western Politics, ancient voices about obeying the State

Aristotle believed in the doctrine of human nature as being priory to creating rules. Understanding the human’s behaviour becomes easier if we look at it through imperfections that go with the human's nature. Political science for him is fused with ethics it is fully controlling and obeying the state should be a natural response from a citizen for belonging to the state. “The man’s happiness depends on being a “citizen of a well run polis or city–state”.

Socrates developed the thoughts of who should rule, how and why should they rule- this made him hesitate if the democracy is the best form of political system.
Socrates was a friend and teacher of Plato, he constantly examined peoples beliefs and convictions.

Plato believed that “a specific form of political organization is especially justified in that it is most in accordance with our nature.” Thus, the state functions as an “organic whole”. And to keep the organic whole, certain rules need to be obeyed.

It is important to obey the state, the ancient voices say, as that helps to keep the State as a well functioning and profiting organisation.


Inspired by :
Winchester University Journalism Course People and Politics, lecture week 1;
Roberts,P. Sutch,P.(2004) An Introduction to Political Thought and Kingdom, J.(2003)Government and Politics in Britain

People and Politics- Anniversary of the 3rd May Constitution in Poland

Discovering other cultures and their political history

In 3rd May 1791 Polish parliament announced the signing of the Constitution. It was the 2nd codified constitution in the world as it was set soon after the US Constitution (1788). It was also the first Constitution in Europe. Effectively, it lasted only for a year, until the Russo- Polish War of 1792.

The Constitution was aiming to improve the situation in the country after the “1st Dividing period in Poland”, stabilising the bases of the new system in Poland (System of Golden Liberty).
Thanks to the Constitution the Liberum Veto rule was abolished that previously put the parliament at the mercy of any deputy who might choose, or be bribed by an interest or foreign power, to undo legislation passed by that parliament. The three powers were introduced to the state, Judiciary (parliament and ministers), Executive (monarch as a head of the country and his so called ‘guardians of the law’) and The Court Power (Legislature). Poland became a Constitutional Monarch based on power spread and democratic election (candidate chosen with the most of the votes).

In the first stage, the new law about so called “small parliaments” (parliament gatherings) was introduced, in 1791. Poland was still divided into states but the aristocracy influences on the election, state’s ruling and Senate were reduced. Lower classes (city classes/in between middle and lower class) were allowed to purchase their own goods, lands and properties. State’s power became more centralized keeping its immunity from The Crown and Lithuania (neighbors). The Government became more stabilized, the army and treasury more reliable. The parliament election was set to be every two years, and every 25years there was meant to be a gathering for the Constitution improvements.

Catholicism was still the ruling religion, however the tolerance for other faiths expanded.

This Constitution was seen to be incredibly important and meaningful as the ‘free election’ was banished and after the death of the last King (Stanislaw August) the crown would be inherited by his child and in case if the royal dynasty died out, the aristocracy could choose the next candidate who would start a new dynasty. It was a significant achievement for the Polish nation as it aimed to keep the country’s independence and secure the political and economical development for the future.

Winchester University Journalism Course People and Politics

Photojournalism- First time with the 'Canon 450d'

Different perspective on Winchester City -different options and camera settings make the capture of the reality suprisingly better.


Different shutter speeds and depths of field make such a difference to focusing on the subject.

Contrast of colours plays a crutial role in images.

Changing an angle of the subject helps to show the different aspect of the subject.



Story telling and investigative Photojournalism is an emazing form of Journalism.















Winchester University Journalism Course Media Production Skills, Photojournalism

Reporting Skills, writing a local story- Hampshire on top with recycling

Over the last year, Hampshire became one of the best recycling areas in the country.

At the end of 1980’s Hampshire was facing a waste disposal crisis, as landscape was rapidly filling up, levels of waste were continuously increasing.

Mr Leon Richardson- Zhang, a communications officer for Recycling and Waste, said that “it was quite tricky” to get to the stage where Hampshire is now, especially when in 1988 recycling was only being introduced and people had to be informed about the importance of it.

It started of “collections of rubbish from homes” and “separation of the rubbish, what was quite a big project” at the time, said Mr Zhang.

Despite a difficult period of a worldwide economic depression, it has progressed immensely.

Previous campaigns like ‘Recycle for Hampshire’ proved successful and encouraged residents to recycle more of their households.

Additionally, Hampshire’s Household Waste and Recycling Centres will now remain open for an extra hour in March and so the spring cleaning and tidying of the gardens this month will have more time to recycle their household.
Moreover, thanks to the projects like INTEGRA, Hampshire has some of the best waste infrastructure in the UK.

It has now set itself a target of recycling 50% by the year 2010, what is “quite a likely target as Hampshire has been continuously beating targets set up by government".

Winchester University Journalism Course Reporting Skills, News Reporting, Local Story Writing

Government and Politics in Britain, John Kingdom- honest and funny

Favourite Quotes from Government and Politics in Britain by John Kingdom(2).

"The retention of the generalists' hegemony was justified variously.
Only they knew why around the Whitehall system, only could understand the (equally generalist) minister's mind; that is, the best people to lead the blind world be the blind."
That was part of the chapter about The Whitehall, Ministers and Mandarins in British Government.

How more honest can the comments of British can be about their own Government, I thought.

Reading further, I found something even more interesting about the Whitehall, "...a civil servant could be imprisoned for disclosing the colour of Whitehall toilet paper."

Further, in the same chapter Permanent Secretary, Sir Richard Mottram was quoted to have left a note to his colleague during the Sixth-Moore affair. It happened to be published in the Sunday Times in February 2002:
"Oh! sir Humphrey!
We're all f*****. I'm f*****. You're f*****. The whole department's f*****.
It's been the biggest cock-up ever and we're all completely f*****.

I really can't wait what else is this book going to uncover.


Winchester University Journalism Course People and Politics
TBC, Politics in Britain by John Kingdom

Government and Politics in Britain by John Kingdom - can be surprising?

Favourite Quotes from Government and Politics in Britain by John Kingdom(1).

"Members of sexual minorities, prostitutes, holders of unorthodox views, squatters, student protesters and so on can all expect rough justice."(chapter 20)
How amazing! That was written in the chapter for Justice and Politics: Trials and Errors! That view came out of the political processes throughout British history of Politics, Student protesters were put along with such respectful members of the society. Then in the following chapter there was an example of a police officer speaking to a young offender in absence of his parents...
"'You're a fucking little cunt aren't you? You've been at it again haven't you, you little bastard?... I'm going to nail your fucking hide to the wall'. (Smith and Gray 1985: 420)".

In one of the earlier chapters (15)a very meaningful comment was quoted:
"No one is qualified to criticise... unless he first hand experience of working in it. But if he has worked in it, then there is a convention that he should never speak about it thereafter expect in terms of respectful admiration. (Hoskyns 1984:4)"

I also found a little bit of poetry:
"Cabinet members are career politicians who, like Macbeth, entertain valuing ambitions of their own."

This beautiful peace of art was followed by quite logical and truthful statement:
"Charter 88 declared: No country can be considered free in which the government is above the law. No democracy can be considered safe whose freedoms are not encoded in a basic constitution."

Well, England, effectively has no written Constitution that is why I exceptionally looked into this sentence.


TBC (Politics in Britain, by John Kingdom)

What's real what isn't - Existence

Thoughts about the life... what's real what isn't?

I went through a 'philosophical hill' with my friend.
We talked about our aims of life.
We both wanted to succeed, we said, we wanted to be famous journalists, travel, write a book, have a huge house and great car.
After reaching our career satisfaction we would settle and have children.
How much of that what we said do you think was real?
How much is only going to be a part of our dreams or imagination?

'Dogs can hear things that we can’t hear... cats can see the real colour of the grass and dolphins can see/sense the baby in the human's womb'...animal's perception differs from humans but that does not mean that we should wonder which one is real and which is wrong.

Does real equal something that we can prove?
'We experience time or gravity' as Chris wrote 'we can measure these things and perceive them but not envisage them as dimensions within the perceived universe'...

People who 'suffer' of Delusions see things that do not exist for others, their senses perceive things and they react on them... 'we' universally called them as 'unreal' but for people who see them, they are it's their reality that we don't understand.

I think that reality depends on our believes and paradoxically believes cannot be proven.
Faith cannot be explained nor measured- it exists and we know it but can’t prove it.
Even when a scientists proves something with a logical and medical explanation it all had to be based on belief that their methods were the ‘right’ ones to be used.
Science aims to find the 'most universal' explanation for things to then call things and define- what makes it easier to understand and identify.

There are still many unexplained things in the world and whole universe, not proven and not yet perceived by a human being. I think that the answer is to stay open for everything that life brings and allow yourself for thinking that things are real as long as you believe in it without necessary proving it.

Winchester University Journalism Course People and Politics, A-Priori task, What is real?

Delusions treated with epiricism vs. A-priori approach- how would that look like?

An Empirical Approach to Understanding Delusions vs. A priori reasoning.
Delusional (Paranoid) Disorders

Lets have a look into the definition of Delusional Disorders...
they are a form of Psychosis in which a person has paranoid delusion(s) which are often long-lasting, and do not have an obvious physical/medical cause (e.g. head injuries). Occasionally they may be accompanied by the person hearing noises, sounds, other people talking, which don't exist (called auditory hallucinations).

If the cause is not found, the person can still be helped by things such as Antipsychotic Medication, and possibly psychotherapies. People can and do recover from paranoid delusions. However, it is extremely variable, and there are many people who do not.
Thanks to the empirical approach, the Disorder is studied and understood as a health/ brain disorder rather than meta-physical. While in hospital, or perhaps being seen by a mental health professional (e.g. a psychiatrist) out of hospital, the cause of the paranoid delusions might be found (e.g. Schizophrenia), and this can then be treated.

"With the growth of psychopharmacology and the development of biochemical and neurophysiological research, the need for careful description of clinical phenomena in psychiatry is greater than ever before." (Hamilton 1976)

A-priori (without the science research) a person with such a disorder would not be helped and further more, not believed and left alone with the problem. That could result in being excluded from a society, avoided and left for self distraction.

However,furthermore, given all the research on psychosis in the intervening three decades, it is striking that our understanding of the concept of delusion remains limited. It is often assumed that delusion and normal thinking are qualitatively different. This belief may derive in part from the subjective strangeness (craziness).

But empirical and conceptual, studies of delusional thinking provide support for the view that delusions lie at the extreme of a continuum of thought content. Much like the label "hypertension" the decision to use the label "delusion" is somewhat arbitrary, since a qualitative difference at some point appears to be clinically described, whereas the empirical and conceptual evidence suggests only quantitative difference.


Inspiration:
Winchester University Journalism Course People and Politics, Empiricism vs. A-Priori
Ghaemi, S. Nassir. An Empirical Approach to Understanding Delusions
Philosophy, Psychiatry, & Psychology - Volume 6, Number 1, March 1999, pp. 21-24
http://easyweb.easynet.co.uk/simplepsych/paranoia.html
http://www.psychnet-uk.com/dsm_iv/delusional_disorder.htm

People and Politics - Which political system?

Is it the Monarchy? No, it could potentially, eventually convert to corrupt Tyrany.
Aristocracy? No, as it could become Oligarchy. Anarchy is not an answer either, as it's based on the idea of ‘state of nature’ and realistically, it is too basic to be taken as a principal of creation a well functioning State.

Absolutism... dictatorship, on the other hand, reaching XV century roots system, has centralised power and it would stand above society and dominate all the political and economical spheres. In this case, society would eventually divide into government supporters and left wing party, all that would lead to creating social structures. Then, legitimate standards between the organisations and also between ruling and ruled would have to be the next step leaning towards developing diplomatic relations or probably violent riots against the State...

Well, lets say that the 'Power' should remain in hands of the strongest organisation or perhaps there should be few of the leading organisations so that could rule over certain interests and issues, like specialised smaller ‘government groups’ rather then generally idealised one.


Is Pluralism the answer?

Those few 'elite organisations' would probably, naturally, compete with each other so the power will eventually fall on the strongest ruling organisation and the other ones would work under.

This idea could work in the Marxian version of the ‘Body Sate’ but would it be good enough for the Perfect State?

The under organisations could, assumingly, divide into either supporting the main organisation The Government or those who will not. Also, the society would surely want to choose who they want to be ruled by and so Democratic Election could become a perfect solution, but even this ideal and fair idea can be undermined. Corruption.

Monarchy will probably not survive unless it has only representative role for the State, the ruling power should be spread onto plural power- organs ruling underneath the Monarch but not less important. The inherited power is not a reasonable decision. It can be seen by the society as an ‘unfair choice’ of the ruling person as well as waste of money for keeping up with the traditional ‘King/Quinn like habits (expensive palaces, demonstrations, cult of the royalty for people that may not even know what they are doing). Skills, charisma and ability to rule the State, not for the personal benefits should be the features of the ruling organisation which would be democratically chosen for the role.

Democracy certainly brings state together, settles ‘inner peace’ in the macro-politics sphere.
The class division will probably always exist as the state is formed by the theory of the ‘state of nature’.

There should be no class system where ‘uppers’ use ‘lowers’ for self benefits only, but there should be cooperation created for an overall benefit. Need for materialistic goods and development of the State as well as among the ‘inner organisations’ should become a collective interest for the state-society benefit, not one or another separately.

Another issue would be to organise and set the roles for the organisations that will be helping the Governing ‘Body (personally I believe that the elite group would work better than an individual )’. Legislation should sate all relations so that all the ‘organs would work beside fulfilling each other at the same time’ creating strong structure supporting the main ‘Governing Body’.


How could the State be made better?

I believe the answer is to find the right balance between those having and using power truthfully and those whose lives depend on the right decisions of the Governing Body.

The perfect State is the one with rather complexed structure of a significantly strong Governing Body (organisation of people), chosen democratically and not having an absolute power but responding in front of the Law equally with other members of the State-Society.

The Law would bring justice and peace to the state and strengthen relation between the Members of the Society and Government Organisations.


Winchester University Journalism Course People and Politics

Winchester University Journalism Student - my first post!

I started my own Blog in my first year of Journalism at the Winchester University. I am going to be posting stories, thoughts on lectures, books, articles, personal reflections, phylosophies and a lot more.

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