POLI 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: American Political Science Association, Scientific Socialism, Australian Army Reserve

• School: UBC
• Department: Political Science
• Course: POLI 100
• Professor: Barbara Arneil

Document Summary

Poli 100 - lecture 3 - modern politics. I think, therefore i am - descartes. Cannot take reality for granted, thinking is the only way to tell that something is true. General tenets of modernity: individuals paramount (challenge authority, belief in science (challenge faith) Root to truth and knowledge is science. Search for universal laws: development of market economy (challenge feudalism) Contract and private property: idea of progress (challenge tradition) Older ideas saw politics as working in a circular fashion, modern thinkers saw it as a linear system. Scientific approach: discover the laws that govern politics, begin with the individual parts of society to discover the interconnecting relationships between society, science means progress. Three modern scientific thinkers: thomas hobbes (english, mid 17th century) 1: john locke (english, end 17th century, karl marx (19th century) All use scientific method to prove their own version of politics. Thomas hobbes: leviathan 1651: galileo"s mathematical scientific method.