POL 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Islamism, Invisible Hand, Class Conflict

• School: Simon Fraser University
• Department: Political Science
• Course: POL 100
• Professor: Loganathan Masilamani

Document Summary

Pol (cid:883)(cid:882)(cid:882) (cid:523)(cid:885)(cid:524) political thought, phil, and )deology. Philosophy: study of questions about existence and knowledge, ethics, justice, and morality based on logical reasoning rather than empirical methods. Politics and philosophy: ideas behind politics rather than (cid:498)mechanics(cid:499) that drive it. Seeks to understand politics in order to improve it. Utopia: idealized place or system, an ideally perfect society; individual or approach aspiring to impractical perfection. History: modern political science rooted in western philosophy, stemming from greek antiquity. Thomas aquinas: introduced aristotle"s philosophy to christian world, and the scientific approach: deductive method: hypothesis observations support hypothesis. Humans secondary; first and foremost about the role of religion. Hobbes: nature and power of government to create stability. Modern political thought modern political ideas build on these eras of philosophy. Marx: critique of capitalism, alternative system of communism. Social constructivism: a sociological and political meta-theory that explains the interactions between individual agents, their social groupings, and their environment.