POL101Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Public Philosophy, Liberal Democracy, Populism
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Lecture 11: transition from semester 1, to semester 2. Antidemocratic thought and power of ideas: trying to limit freedoms, constructionism, without the liberal qualifier, populism, threats to liberal democracy in the 20th century and present, dictatorship, war, violence, poverty. Fascism and communism in 20th century: on the left, a military parade to celebrate hitler"s 50th birthday, some part of the population, is still installed with non-democratic governments. Carl schmitt: legal and political philosopher, exponent of nazism: Germans have now realized that liberal constitutions are the typical disguise in which foreign domination appears (quoted in holmes, p. 38: the power of ideas to make certain actions real, is one central theme this semester. Aimed at the self-justification of political actors. First part: threats to liberal democracy: liberal democracy, fascism, populism, communism. Pert 2: impact of liberal democracy and its competitors on: economic inequality, war and peace.
