Political Science 1020E Lecture Notes - Lecture 23: Human Nature, Antoine Destutt De Tracy, Friedrich Engels
17 Dec 2017
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Exam: lecture up to oct 25th & tutorials up to oct 24 on gambling. If you think duties of justice apply only within countries, you are: nationalist, fascist, libertarian. It is what men think that determines how they act j. s. Ideas and ideologies structure political understanding, set goals, shape political systems, and act as a form of social cement. Ideologies aim to understand, interpret, explain, and evaluate the social world. They unify groups or classes around a set of beliefs and values. Ideologies are systems of ideas with their own histories. For destutt de tracy (1795), ideology is the science of ideas: the study of the origin of our ideas and their laws of operation. The aim is to improve the rationality of public discourse in the name of progress and truth. Destutt de tracy (1795): science of ideas. Early 1800s: napoleon supports a return to an alliance with the catholic church and tradition.
