POL S101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Classical Liberalism, Age Of Enlightenment, Limited Government

• School: University of Alberta
• Department: Political Science
• Course: POL S101
• Professor: Nicole Marshall

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Digest #3 themes: liberalism, conservatism, socialism, fascism. Negative aspects of ideology: sometimes treated dogmatically, you are either one or the other, can be simplistic, have been used to justify the unjustifiable, ex. Positive aspects of ideology: provides some coherence, consistency and direction to a pe(cid:396)so(cid:374)"s politi(cid:272)al thi(cid:374)ki(cid:374)g a(cid:374)d action. Ideologies provide us with different ideas about the common good and how it may be achieved: helps you sort out what is really important to you. History of ideologies: the terms left and right originated in the seating arrangements of the french national. Assembly after the french revolution of 1789: supporters of the old order to the right and opponents of the absolute authority of the monarch to the left. In contemporary usage, the left is associated with the pursuit of greater social and economic equality, while those on the right generally see inequality as a natural feature of human society: right, left.