POLSCI 3CC3 Study Guide - Febreze, Kurt Cobain, Political Philosophy

• School: McMaster University
• Department: Political Science
• Course: POLSCI 3CC3
• Professor: Catherine Frost

Document Summary

Political science: 3cc3; lecture 2; september 12, 2012. End of history; somewhere around the 19th century; that is what they believed. The end of history is a common theme in the 18th/19th century. Hegel"s idea was history was unfolding over time, yielding new concepts and in his mind, all ideas and concepts came together, this seemed to be the end of history. But after hegel was marx turned hegel on his head" marx thought that was the end of history. This was the period and thinking that starts the 20th century; end of god, religion was the opiate of the masses, end of science, rational humanism. Readings were regarding end of history that was taken apart of the structures of philosophy and the world as we knew it. Three concepts regarding nich: metaphysics, transcendent morality, cartesian self. Traditional founded political authority but ran into problems.