POL101Y1 Lecture : pol373 sept 11.docx
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Book the problem with passion - 1st reason-liberalism is largely responsible for marginalizing emotions in political theory negative consequence of extreme emotions. Also: bringing up the motion that the test of morality was universal this takes away from description of moral action anything viewed to the help of self-motivation. Ideal versus reality: judith butler and stern the fear issuing form 9/11 was dealth with inappropriately. The culture in north america has been trained to be so risk- aversive( otganiza our life sot minimize risk) and risk avoidance is sort of fear avoidance. We try to orgaznize communities in our lifes so we wont have to face fear. Fear-avoiding organization of our communities movement eventually lead to that citizens of our own century are icapable of fear, we cant handle it. So when faced woth actual fear or risk is dealt with in a wrong and extreme way.