Political Science 1020E Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Radical Change, Political Compass, Antoine Destutt De Tracy
26 Feb 2016
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Egalitarian plateau=all citizens should be treated as equals. Social: immigration and multiculturalism, law and order, drugs, abortion, assisted death. How should we understand what they mean, why they happened, and how we should evaluate them? e. g. , 9/11, occupy wall street, federal election. It is what men think that determines how they act john stuart mill, 1861. The ideas of economists and political philosophers, both when they are right and when they are wrong, are more powerful than is commonly understood. Indeed the world is ruled by little else. Reaction, return to alliance with the church and tradition. Karl marx and friedrich engels (1846) on ideology. The ruling ideas of every age are the ideas of the ruling class. Ruling illusions that conceal exploitative social relations: a rationale for class oppression. False consciousness: makes the status quo seem natural. Ideology: what it is and what it does. Ball, dagger and o"neill definition: value-neutral tradition: social/political worldview.
