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To: koan who wrote (68953)4/29/2018 4:19:22 PM
From: i-node  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 357533
 
>> It was political scientists that gave us democracy and the rule of law!!

Some of your "critical thinking" going on there. LOL.



To: koan who wrote (68953)4/29/2018 4:20:07 PM
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  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 357533
 
"It was political scientists that gave us democracy and the rule of law!"

Oh, bullshit. Perhaps you are getting it confused with philosophy.

Political science - Wikipedia

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Jump to History - As a social science, contemporary political science started to take shape in the latter half of the 19th century. At that time it began to separate itself from political philosophy, which traces its roots back to the works of Chanakya, Aristotle, and Plato which were written nearly 2,500 years ago.



To: koan who wrote (68953)5/2/2018 12:26:10 PM
From: TimF  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 357533
 
Democracy and the rule of law existed before political science became a formal discipline.

I suppose you mean political philosophers? Even then I'd say implementing the ideas was more significant than coming up with them, and also non-philosophers come up with ideas all of the time, but at least that claim wouldn't be silly.