POL101Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Pythia, Illiberal Democracy, Public Philosophy
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Illiberal democracy = based on the power of the people, but tries to eliminate the individual freedoms. The modern state that are characteristic of liberal democracies. Germs have now realized that liberal constitutions are the typical disguise in which foreign domination appears . The power of ideas to make certain actions thinkable, to render certain regimes possible. The goal of philosophy is not to just understand the world, but change it. Communism was the only way to enable human beings to achieve their vocation as members of the human species. Ideology = a loose public philosophy, degraded philosophy aimed to give the public a sense of meaning; unite people around a similar belief. Understanding of political regimes, political processes, etc. as such. Evaluating liberal and non-liberal regimes against one another with a view to making informed judgements. The unexamined life is not worth living for a human being .
