Political Science 1020E Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Otto Kirchheimer, Egotism, Jingoism
4 Feb 2017
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After 1500 the state model proved superior to other political models. Question the states role and its significance (we may not always use the state model) Hegelian idealism: he saw human history as the gradual fulfillment of human, development: consciousness or ideas, history as ideas in motion. : civil society (cid:498)universal egoism- no ethical content (cid:499) : state (cid:498)universal altruism advanced ethical idea, incorporates solidarity(cid:499) rules) and profoundly liberating (universality: state as the end of history- in terms that the state is confining (sets, woodrow wilson: state idealist. Organizational approach: (1) state as specific set of institutions: bureaucracy, military, police, courts, etc (2) why treat these collectively as (cid:498)the state(cid:499)? distracting, unnecessary (3) post-hegelian political scientists rejected the concept as abstract, It also protects its people from each other and also from external threats. Its borders define what is internal and external in the first place.
