GVPT 200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Giambattista Vico, Immanuel Kant, Great Power
22 Apr 2019
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Focus on human awareness or consciousness and its place in world affairs. Can be traced back to 18th century giambattista vico. Natural world is made by god, historical world is made by man. Knowledge will always be subjective because it is filtered through human consciousness. Employ interpretive understanding in order to analyze social action. Unmask the core relationship between truth and power. Locke: states consider others as rivals but there is restraint because they recognize each other"s rights to exist. Kantian: states see each other as friends and settle disputes peacefully. Ideas matter in ir, culture and identity help define the interests and constitute the actors in ir. Lecture: constructivism *reading for today is not going to be on midterm 1. States can be seen as unitary and rational, valuing their own security above all else. One country"s efforts to increase its own security can inadvertently decrease security of another.
