POL113H5 Lecture 4: Week 4 pol113
9 Mar 2017
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Stuck-in-the-mud vs. flip floppers (lecture) week 4 september 30, 2013. Stuck-in-the-mud vs. flip floppers (lecture: this course is about understanding perspectives, not truth or falsity. Cannot be completely false or they can"t accomplish their goal of causing a political movement (eg. nazism and fascism). Always has a half truth b/c it can mobilize mass # of people for political change (does not need or require coherent or rational argument: ex. Russell kirk: it says so much that its important, puts directly in front about political language and ideology and ideological structures. Beginning: being neither a religion nor ideology last sentence: not between liberals and totalitarians, it"s about materialists versus people who recognize an enduring order in the world. 7th principle: freedom and property are closely linked. What kind of freedom, what kind of property. Voluntary communities and local control vs. abstract democracy: a principle of prudence. Who are these locals who are so capable of such long-term thinking.
