POL101Y1 : Political Science Lecture Notes for entire year
14 Mar 2014
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Aristotle - human beings are by nature political: themes of class. The point of social science is to try to make sense of the world we live in. By simplifying, by focusing on what matters and ignoring what doesn"t. Summer1989 - berlin wall the end of history. Hegel liberty , equality, fraternity: wars are new ideas that are to challenge the old ones. History is the history of great ideas. The study of human consciousness: fukuyama. Big challengers to liberate the defeated in realm of ideas: challengers. Yes, we still have wars but they are not wars of big ideas, or if they are liberalism wins. An examination of huntington"s arguments: fukuyama. Arriving at the end of history liberal democracy: huntington alternative world order? (pessimistic rejoinder) Fukuyama a narrow reading of world history. Liberal peace and prosperity are illusory: inequality, contested citizenship, exclusion.
