POLS 1000 Lecture Notes - Bourgeoisie, Middle Ages, Humanitarianism

• School: York University
• Department: Political Science
• Course: POLS 1000
• Professor: Martin Breaugh

Document Summary

Ideologies will offer meaning and identity in a world that has no meaning. Ideologies seem inescapable for modern secular societies (societies not organized by religion: religion is not eliminated but privatized, nor do political leaders because their power comes from god. Two problematic consequences or dangers of ideologies. Liberalism is not only capitalism, but also made up of cultural, intellectual and philosophical aspects that wericin must explore. Liberalism is the first of ideologies and will actually furnish the elements that make up the other ideologies. There is a founding resemblance between the major ideologies (spec. Liberalism and socialism: socialism can rightly be seen as the legitimate child of liberalism, principles of socialism stem from liberalism but will distinguish itself from it, conservatism is the opposite. Historically speaking, liberalism was developed as a replacement to the christian middle ages. Renaissance says lets return to traditional practices: but liberalism does not believe we can return to antiquity.