POL101Y1 Lecture Notes - Territorial Authorities Of New Zealand, Sun Yat-Sen, Mutual Assured Destruction
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S tothe end of history francis fukuyma"s hegelian view. Man is by nature is a political animal. You may not like politics, but it likes you. If you do not engage in politics, others will do it for you. Point of social science = make sense of the world we live in. Simplifying , focusing on what matters and shutting out what doesen"t. Big thinkers on the matter = francis fukuyama, watched communist ussr collapsing in summer 1989 believed it was world changing (hegel)history of human consciousness. History of the world = the history of philosophy. Not kings, queens, presidents , prime ministers or celebrities. When you see a war, you see people dying. But what"s really happening is a clash of. Industry, economy, religious practice are material manifestation, but what"s really going on is the ideas that inform those practices. Really big ideas are those that organize human society.
