POLS 262 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Thomas Kuhn, World War I, Thomas Hobbes

• School: Queen's University
• Department: Political Studies
• Course: POLS 262
• Professor: Wayne S Cox

Document Summary

Common assumptions shared by a research community. Sets of commonly held assumptions about certain areas of study, but can also have different assumptions within the same area of study. These assumptions become a set of lenses. Luke ashworth/ first paradigm (1918): comes from a sense of euphoria or idealism. The state of nature was one of cooperation. The current state of ir was not natural, the history of human evolution has been a history of cooperation. Westphalia marked the entrance of the social contract with sovereignty. The state is the product of the evolution of cooperation. Idealists argue that the reason why wwi occurred was that the process of human cooperation was incomplete. Idealists believe in institutionalization, which contributed to the establishment of the league of. Liberal belief: there are core, fundamental human rights and values that are shared by everyone. Right to a peaceful existence, collectively want an absence of war, etc.