Principled Loyalty: Combining Loyalty and Ethics

The issue I am about to address is one of which I have thought for a very long time. It is a relationship between loyalty and ethics. From what I have seen, the best way to handle this matter is to advocate what I call principled loyalty.There are some people who see it as...

What Business Owes to Science

For a long time, there was a strong movement militating against business. There is some of that now; but there is a much larger movement militating against science, and it includes many people who have business affiliations. It is time that this movement be met...

The Second Middle Ages

By Sam Vaknin Author of "Malignant Self-love: Narcissism Revisited" The fourth quarter of the twentieth century and the first decade of the twenty-first herald a period akin, in some respects, to certain stretches of the Middle Ages. The High Middle Ages – especially...

Envy as the Foundation of Capitalism

By Sam Vaknin Author of "Malignant Self-love: Narcissism Revisited" In the 18th century, the political philosopher and novelist Jean-Jacques Rousseau made a distinction between amour de soi and amour propre. The former involved striking a balance between regard for...

International Recognition of Maoist People's War

Originally published in www.groundreport.com/mohannepali Nepalis Said Goodbye to Monarchy for Ever At 23:26—Kathmandu Time—on 28 May 2008, Nepal’s 240 year-long monarchy was constitutionally abolished by the recently elected Constituent Assembly. However, millions of...

Nepal’s House Restoration Proved a Golden Opportunity for Feudal Warlords

Mohan Nepali, Kathmandu:  In Nepal, the reinstitution of the House of Representatives dissolved by the elected minister and approved by the Supreme Court was a regressive move itself. Had people demanded the restoration of the House, they could approve it through their...

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The last feudal government in Europe

"Democracy comes to the English Channel as the island of Sark, the last feudal government in Europe, is switching to a semi-democratic system. Previously, only the 40 landowners, out of a population of 500, could vote, and the island was ultimately ruled by a lord, the...