POL 307 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Age Of Enlightenment, Classical Liberalism

• School: University of Miami
• Department: Political Science
• Course: POL 307
• Professor: Sylvia Thompson

Document Summary

Thought it would benefit mankind if we could understand how people came up. Ideology: the scientific study of life, existing conditions. Desired future, action plan, directed at the masses. Coined by de tracy, study of how people form and develop their ideas with their ideas. Created in the modern world, people would be able to figure out the correct course of action to take to improve their lives. Every ideology is based on some type of philosophy. Government: institution or establishment that creates social order. Power to legitimately use force to enforce these things. People always formed their ideas based on physical, material things. Political ideologies is an attempt to lead to the best political system you could have. King, royalty, clergy, nobility, gentry, merchants, artisans, independent farmers, peasants, laborers. Beliefs and values not typically accepted until this time period (moves into. Backlash against what was going on in the middle ages.