Mysuru: Ravi Joshi, retired Joint Secretary, Cabinet Secretariat, will speak on the topic "Understanding the Political Right & the Left — From Edmund Burke to Harold Laski" at an event organised by the Mysore Literary Association on Nov. 10 (Sunday) at 11 am at Kalpakshetra auditorium, Vijayanagar 2nd Stage, Mysuru.
He will talk about the origins of the ideas that inspired the formation of Rightist & Leftist political parties in political theory as well as in the American War of Independence and the French Revolution of the 18th century. Tracing back the origin of Conservatism as a political philosophy to Edmund Burke, he will contrast it with the ideas of Thomas Paine as well as the ideas of the Social Contractualists — Thomas Hobbes, John Locke and Jean-Jacques Rousseau.
