POLS 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Class Conflict, Antoine Destutt De Tracy, Medieval Philosophy
6 Apr 2017
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Answer to the question: what is ideology? (week 11 nov. 22) Origin and nature of ideology: historical/theoretical context renaissance and early modern period (1500-1750) the renaissance represents a break and change, 1. Medieval scholasticism: development of middle class the truth becomes secondary, the truth now has to have practical effects, must produce useful actions, ex. The link between pursuit of knowledge and concrete actions . Ancient athens democracy favours peasants and merchants: 2. Babies and parents) we must respect the hierarchy to be fully realized human beings: pre-existing orders, 3. Ideologies offer a vision of the future and what the best possible society could look like, all ideologies require political action they need political activism to bring about this best possible society there"s a (cid:272)all to a(cid:272)tio(cid:374: ex. Marxism: organizing labour, fermenting revolution is inherent in the three ideologies. In the principals of representative government, bernard manin argue that representative go(cid:448)er(cid:374)(cid:373)e(cid:374)t is a (cid:862)(cid:373)i(cid:454)ed regi(cid:373)e(cid:863).
