POLS 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Homo Economicus, Hydroelectricity, Power (Social And Political)
6 Apr 2017
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What is ideology? (week 2 jan 17) Comrade (how marxists identify one another: demonstrates the bonds of people within the same viewpoint. Ideologies (cid:449)ill (cid:271)e a (cid:374)e(cid:272)essar(cid:455) (cid:272)o(cid:373)po(cid:374)e(cid:374)t for (cid:373)oder(cid:374) politi(cid:272)al life despite it"s proclaimed death. Ideologies can deceive the mind: can make us less open to questioning, less open to interrogating our assumptions and certitudes, they offer predetermined answers to the question, they can ruin the possibility of critical thought. Ideologies and the desire to impose itself as the truth with violence. Ideologies will be used and be put to the most despicable ends because they are justified to be the truth: ex. The creation of soviet death camps: all in the name of science and national socialists. Human nature, the soul religious thinkers: liberalism is governed by the laws of nature, we must obey these laws of nature to develop, flourish, and to be happy as humans.
