POL S101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: John Stuart Mill, Syrian Civil War, Political Philosophy
19 Sep 2016
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Political philosophy is about the ideas behind politics, rather than the mechanics that drives it. Answers to these are wide-ranging: smith and marx, for instance, have very different ideas about the role of government in the economy. Medieval thought focused on life and religion (christianity) Humans secondary; first and foremost, about the role of religion. Renaissance thought took a secular approach to politics. Niccolo machiavelli examined the nature of power and leadership: it"s better to be feared than loved . Thomas hobbes looked at the nature and power of government to create stability. Much of modern political ideas build on these eras of philosophy and take into account enlightenment and industrial thinkers like adam. Smith, john stuart mill, and karl marx: smith: early liberal economic thinking, mill: liberty and tolerance in society, marx: critique of capitalism, alterative system of communism. Their theories and philosophies were deeply influenced by the contexts in which they lived; real world circumstances.
