POL320Y1 Lecture : Lecture 1.doc
Document Summary
Modern political thought in the 18th and 19th centuries european thought. It"s called modern political thought not because its new (modern does not equal contemporary) but to contrast ancient political thought (plato, aristotle, socrates, etc. ) In the 16th and 17th centuries, we experience the shift in ideas to modernity modern is not a historical period but a tradition: modern has a content associated with the ideas developed in europe in the 18th and 19th century. It"s a tricky term because many modern ideas (18th 19th century) are being challenged by ancient ideas. Everyone we study in this class lived in an age of constitutionalism they are the founding fathers of our political system. Rousseau kant burke mill hegel marx. We contrast the enlightenment period to the romantic period. Rousseau vs. rousseau (he is both a romantic and enlightenment thinker) 2nd part of the course: 3 voices of modernity: mill, marx, hegel; nietzsche as a critic of modernity.
