POL208Y1 Lecture Notes - Realpolitik, Non-Interventionism, Thought Experiment
25 Sep 2013
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Models, by definition have to omit a lot of stuff. If we don"t we are bringing back the same complexity of reality. Battle of antietam: deadliest and bloodiest war. A few days later we have the empaication by abraham lincoln. Towards the end of the war a photographer came and took a picture. This was perhaps the first time someone photographed a war. The important thing was that this was the first time copies of photos were passed around and the horror of war spread. The impact of these images from the battle of antietam was great. The deadlier wars are the ones that occur within the state itself. Social science has tried to build models of realities in order to simplify the essence of reality of what might have happened. We have to simply recreate reality in order to understand what is happening and why. If we don"t we are bringing back the came complexity of reality.
