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<!--QuoteBegin-ramana+Nov 30 2006, 08:56 PM-->QUOTE(ramana @ Nov 30 2006, 08:56 PM)<!--QuoteEBegin-->kram and Bodhi, Can you compare and contrast Bhisma's Shanti Parva and Rousseau's Social Contract that inspired the American and French Revolutions?


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ramana, nope. I have not even attempted, so far.

If as the social contract theories can be broadly classified and studied as addressing the moral, & ethical, civil & social and institutional (constitutional) issues, perhaps one could compare or see the points addressed in shanti parva.

need to spend more time on this. It will be an interesting study though. hey, if Marx did not like social contract theories (??), must be worth studying them <!--emo&--><img src='style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif' /><!--endemo-->