ABSTRACT
Three general components in policy decision may be distinguished. People have to have aims, purposes or values. They need knowledge. And they require some account of the situation to which value and knowledge are being applied; this third component is called as the practical context. The humanities include “the study of philosophy, history, literature, language, linguistics, jurisprudence, comparative religion, ethics and archaeology; also the history, theory and criticism of the arts and those aspects of the social sciences concerned with values. The basic issue of private and public takes two forms. One is the concept of individual rights vis-a-vis the public good. The second is a system of private individual property as against collective or social property. Charles Frankel penetrates to the heart of the first. In his “Private Rights and the Public Good,” Frankel notes the common belief that there are some rights which no government ought to infringe short of an emergency and some not even then.
