POLS 110 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Liberal Democracy, Francis Fukuyama
26 Nov 2015
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Clusters/composites of political beliefs, values, and ideas. A pattern of social, political, economic, technological, and philosophical beliefs that help us organize the world around us . Grounded in belies about human nature and social possibility (what is, what could be) Judge what should i think about this? (normative judgement) Refers to between ideologies and within an ideology. Composite combining a range of beliefs and meanings, spectrum of views that often overlap with other ideologies. Core aspect views of human nature and human interaction. Including changes in central concepts (meanings) and also in relation of concepts to other concepts (e. g. relationship of freedom to equality) Appeals to both reason and emotion have a rational bases on which they justify themselves, but are rarely presented as pure rationality. Prescriptive/operational (suggest the direct society should go in, what should happen) In various affinities/alliances with each other (historically shifting) Frequently claim to be true, to be non-ideological.
