POL 3102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: The German Ideology, Jeremy Bentham, Tabula Rasa

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Political Science
• Course: POL 3102
• Professor: Sascha Maicher

Document Summary

Each should be 3 pages long, double spaced. There should be two pages that summarize the material assigned and one page of critical comments or observations. Texts and readings: course pack from rytek, nietzsche, friedrich the use and abuse of history for life, freud, sigmund civilization and its discontents. The notion of self (and how it changed for each political theory) Freedom (the enlightenment; that politics should be about perusing a space of freedom) The relation of the notion of self to the thinker"s conception of freedom. The setting in history and its impact on the concept of freedom. Sept. 9the age of the enlightenment: part one (1776) Sept. 12 the age of the enlightenment: part two kant: what is enlightenment? (1784) Sept. 16 the age of the enlightenment: part three kant: on the common saying this may be true in theory, but it does not apply in practice (1793)