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What we learned last week with pb was that people didn"t identify democracy as elections; they identified it in themselves in society, values, as a dis

Historically, liberalism was a precursor of democracy, since it was about investing sovereignty in the people and placed limits on who counted as the p

More than half of the countries in the world use democratic institutions to elect leaders and make policy. Even countries that don"t count as democrati

Liberal civic education and religious fundamentalism: the case of god v. john rawls. Grew out of the struggle between the parliament and the stuart kin

Democratization: the third wave jan 22 nd. Wave of democratization: a group of transitions from nondemocratic to democratic regimes that occur within a

Government success in development oct 30 th. A nation of contradictions, an east asian development model, taiwan"s economic history. The point of this

Import substitution industrialization; the import substitution strategy of economic development. Isi is one of the four strategies of economic developm

The division of the world among the great powers; imperialism as a special stage of capitalism; Modernization and dependency: alternative perspectives

Colonial nigeria: origins of a neopatrimonial state and a commodity exporting economy: the colonial origins of comparative state development. The ir wa

The passing of traditional society ch1-2; modernization: theories and facts p155-183. There was a huge change in political science during the 1950s. Th

The making of economic society and the industrial revolution sep 18 th. The transformation from a feudal economy to a market economy took a long time -

Thick and thin democracy jan 15 th. Capitalism, socialism and democracy; an introduction to government and politics. In the last 60 years, the number o

Looked at development in different countries and at different points in time, looked at different theories of development, and the normative (moral/the

The ego and the id mar 27th. Rationalist account: we make moral judgments consciously and deliberately, by applying general principles to particular si

Each of us has a natural, individualistic self/part of us. But as a result of being in society, we acquire an artificial sense of self: rousseau"s conc

On the influencing motives of the will; the intuitive dog and its rational tail. Hume"s work is in many ways responding against descartes" rationalist

Bayesian confirmation theory developed out carnap"s notion of confirmation and his project (as well as others) to come up with a notion of probability

A, b, c, belong to a. sets, propositions. Pr (a), pr (b) belong to r (numbers, probabilities) Assume we have two names, a, b, and one property/predicat

On the eternity of the world march 8 th. Condemnation of 1270 and 1277, the banning of 13 articles. Two important igures: boethius of dacia and siger o

There is a bifurcation of power in the intellect because universals (intelligibles) don"t exist as universals (abstract intelligibles outside the soul)

Human nature: soul, body, cognitive faculties february 16 th. The soul and cognition are the most theologically relevant, which is why aquinas devotes

What we"re worried about is god"s omnipotence posing problems for our understanding of basic features in the world around us. Augustine and boethius bo

The existence of god, providence and will february 7 th. Hww 472-478: names of god; 478-482: providence and will. To be contingent/merely possible = yo

The existence of god january 24 th. Hww 466-70: summa theologiae; hww 472-478: names of god; maurer chapter xii- Two key elements of bonaventure"s exem

The two universities that taught philosophy and theology in the 1200s were the. Philosophy consisted of aristotle and theology consisted of the bible a

Abelard and the problem of universals december 1 st. He believed that universals exist purely by virtue of words in the mind and that they do not exist

Augustine rejects individual evil and says that someone cannot do evil for evil"s sake. If you"re evil, you"re simply mistaken about how to perceive ce