POL 1101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: False Consciousness, Philosophes, Samuel Eliot Morison
22 Nov 2016
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Often used term in a prerogative sense - one who is ideological is speaking nonsense. Everyone has notions of right and wrong, what is legitimate etc, these ideas provide structures of meaning and understanding - these structures are what we call an ideology. It all has a political connotation it is not simply descriptive. Ideology - term first used by frenchmen de tracey, he was a philosophes - these people wanted to provide a scientific definition of political terms - starting with a and working through the alphabet. Believed that conflict could be eradicated if terms could be agreed upon, wanted for there to be and understanding of language. Group got to around the letter n and then they died. Didnt work but it was a nice attempt. Term wouldve disappeared from lexicon if it weren"t for karl marx. Wants to understand the political role of ideology. Whether it was possibly to have an objective understanding of politics + beliefs.
