POL101Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Teleology, Hubris, Benevolent Dictatorship
10 Sep 2018
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Introduction to political science - critical thinking and reading. Reading kaplan - was democracy just a moment? (all diagrams are my own created with lucidchart on google docs) 1980 national anthem act passed to celebrate quebec"s decision to stay in canada. Adding the land acknowledgment to the start of the school day includes indigenous identities and histories to the national identity of canada. This is a political shift, the result of a particular political moment. Understand the background of politics and different political systems. Also teach us how to write an essay, create a thesis, make a persuasive essay, how to cite properly. Fukuyama argues democracy was the end of history. That it is the final form of human government. Democracy is the end of mankind"s ideological evolution. Teleology is the philosophical study of design and purpose. A teleological theory is one that arranges all things to be leading towards and end or a purpose.
