POL113H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Camera Obscura, Validity, Limited Government
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Marx thinks this is ideology, that can reflect the world. E. g. if you want to know about capitalism, you see the reflect of capitalism, and you will see the politics of capitalism. More susceptible to totalitarianism than other modes of political thought: totalitarianism- makes you believe the opposite side of reality. You can use the same furniture to decorate the room into different styles. Just like concepts, you can use similar ideas to solve different problems: share certain family resemblances with other ideologies that belong to the same tradition. Can use liberal concepts and rearrange the concepts to build totalitarianism society: e. g. , some varieties of liberalism assign property to the center, while others place it at the periphery. The same pieces of furniture are arranged differently. Normative political theory too contains an ideological dimension. Both contain political concepts as their basic units. Greater concern for moral rightness of its prescriptions . Greater focus on logical validity and internal coherence.
