POL 3102 Lecture Notes - Mind Control, Civil Society, Totalitarianism

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Political Science
• Course: POL 3102
• Professor: Sascha Maicher

Document Summary

For hegel: freedom for humans is the goal of world history: history is the actualization of freedom through the modern state, we"re progressively actualizing the idea of freedom. The existence of a state does not make it rational: if it is not rational, it is not completely actual. History as a process is not value neutral: there is a right way and a wrong way to actualize. Actualization is: the move from abstract right to concrete right. Concepts of political thought may be more actualized in some societies than others. The universe has an abstractly real structure. The universe is rational because us as humans are rational and we are of the universe. Hegel: we must figure out how to actualize the rationality of the universe: we don"t know what freedom is until it becomes real in the world. There are 2 streams of knowledge: human beings are biological entities of the world, human beings are free.