POL101Y1 Lecture Notes - Beijing Consensus, Kim Jong-Il, Francis Fukuyama
30 Oct 2012
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The nature of politics pioneered by greek philosopher aristotle. Exemplified through man by nature is a political animal, and he who is unable to live in society or who has no need because he is sufficient for himself, must be a god or an animal. Typically political systems are systematic in nature: organized to promote order within society. The whole point of social science within politics as a field is therefore to make sense of the world we live in, the world we are governed in. As well as to encourage us, how to make sense of it, through a simple procedure: Simplification of concepts down to key propositions, which in turn make the world less scary. Democracy and war two very distinct concepts present in our world. Questions the measure of peace present in the world today. Introduces francis fukuyama- focused on communism within eastern. In the summer of 1989, hegel was introduced.
