PSCI 1024 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: New Soviet Man, Giacomo Campiotti, Boris Pasternak
30 Aug 2016
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January 23 political ideologies: what we believe (chapters 1-2) Lecture: in the last lecture, we talked about the need for government. For most of the world today, governments are alive and well. Where they are not, i. e. , where states have failed, there is chaos and catastrophe. Authoritative force truly is needed to maintain order and prosperity. The soviet experience to create a new soviet man, i. e. , a virtuous human being, and to move toward the withering away of the state was obviously not successful. The creation of many small agrarian, communitarian republics also has little prospect in the modern world. Hobbes thought order was so important that the sovereign should be all-powerful. Without a central locus of control, he believed all society would fall apart. Locke agreed on the need for order, but he believed that government needed to be limited. Governments are called upon for a number of services.
