POL113H5 Lecture 3: Week 3 pol113
9 Mar 2017
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George orwell politics and the english language . 60% short answer/identification (all readings: war prayer up to last reading) (identify, list, describe) 40% essay question, analysis of some themes. Ideologies: ideologies are not necessarily bad things (treated as negative), ideolo are ways to organize components of a complex world, study of political issues in depth, main func of any pol. Ideologies (lecture) monday, september 23, 2013: george orwell, points out pol ideo manipulate meanings of words to get us to move in a particular direction, going to be practical in telling us to go form a to b. Declaration of rights: say that these are truths. Life, liberty and pursuit of happiness. (thomas jefferson paraphrased from john. Locke: ideologies do not have to be consistent or rational. Even if we recognize that they weren"t, we still don"t want to change. (eg. humans are competitive by nature: people may say that we"ve finally devolved into our final and good form.
