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| Normative Political Theory |
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What is ideal
What should be --> synonym for political philosophy
interrelated propositions for human life
"ought" |
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| Empirical Political Theory |
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Intentionally sets aside political theory
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Emile Durkheim (1858-1917):
any set of ideas that serves, justifies, or promotes any group of people; content does not matter, philosophy put into social practice |
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Thomas Kuhn
"The Structure of Scientific Revolution" - way of looking at things to allow one to connect things |
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1770-1831
Developed scheme of human consciousness
development of humans analogous to child (infant) development |
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Main movement of modern period
Emphasizes
Individual Freedom, Humanism, Markets, Secularism, and Democracy |
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| innate impulse to control their own destiny; development toward expansion of human freedom |
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| human welfare here and now, set power aside and evaluate human welfare |
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| freedom, allow people to define and pursue own purposes |
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| making of judgments from humanistic logic |
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| people can choose and change their rulers |
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Utopianism - marxism/leninism
National Socialism - fascism
Islamicism |
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