Explanation:
Not really. All 3 major branches of philosophy ethics, epistemology, and metaphysics involve the reflection of morality, science, religion. Searching for more knowledge and trying to obtain an understanding leads to a reflection in most cases. If you were studying for something and you got the answer wrong and then saw why you got it wrong, you are reflecting on your mistakes. In a similar way, searching for the understanding of an unanswered question will lead you to a possible answer that you will reflect on.
They both start around the year 2000 BCE, four millennia ago, a bit later than Egypt and Sumer (Babylonia).
The first empires in India started around the Vedic period (1500-800 BCE). The Vedas are some of the oldest mythological texts in history. They laid the principles of Hinduism (which is one of the major religions even nowadays) and traditional Hindu philosophy. Since then, a series of different empires have ruled over the Indian subcontinent for more than three thousand years, among great wars and shifts in religion. Some examples are the Mauryan empire (321-185 BCE) or the Chola empire (850-1279 CE).
The Xia dynasty (2070-1600 BCE) was the first in ancient China. Since then, great emperors have ruled over the whole territory, but the country has also split apart into feudal kingdoms a lot of times, and subjected by foreign invaders like the Mongols. Some of the most important dynasties were the Tang Dynasty (618-907 CE) which flourished due to commerce, the Ming Dynasty (1368-1644 CE) a brilliant period for the arts, or the Qing Dynasty (1644-1912 CE) which lasted until the arrival of communism and gives us an idea of the extraordinary continuity of Chinese tradition and political system. Confucianism and Taoism were ancient moral and religious teachings that shaped Chinese society. Both China and India were strongly influenced by Buddhism.
(Note: Dates by the Encyclopedia Britannica)
Informal rules of state legislature
Explanation:
The political scientists Lee Bernick and Charles Wiggins formulated a set of legislative rules which a legislature of a legislative should not do during his/her term.
These informal rules are those which govern the legislators and the legislative bodies. They have listed the rules based on certain things which a legislator should not do during his period. Like:
- A legislator should not be vocal about representing a specific interest group or act as a spokesperson of that group
- A legislator should not allow the real purpose of a bill to be known too early to get it passes early or to the public to gain any public acceptance or popularity without final voting or roll call
- A legislator should not take an early position on whether or not a bill should be passed and decide or judge things on only one’s self
- A legislator should not introduce too many bills in the legislative. A legislator must limit the number of bills to reduce over piling of bills and concentrate more on priorities of the state
