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  • Ideologies

    • Defined as organized sets of ideas
    • Why they are useful
    • Public and private uses of ideologies


  • American ideologies
    • American liberalism
    • American conservatism
    • Why an increase in concern about ideologies in the U.S.


  • Liberalism
    • One of three great European ideologies
    • Box: John Stuart Mill and Liberalism


  • The Conservative reaction
    • Conservatism in the European sense is unfamiliar to Americans
    • Box: Edmund Burke and Conservatism
    • Adaptivity of conservatism


  • The socialist alternative
    • Box: Karl Marx and Socialism


  • Communism and socialism


  • Fascism
    • A style of politics rather than a coherent ideology


  • Ideologies in the 21st century
    • Modifications of ideologies in light of practical experience
    • Neoliberalism


  • Political philosophy in other historical eras
    • The Greeks (Plato, Aristotle)
    • Early Christian writers (Saint Augustine, Saint Thomas Aquinas)
    • Responses to the power of the Church (Niccolo Machiavelli)
    • Protestantism (Martin Luther)
    • Question of royal authority (Thomas Hobbes)
    • Religion and politics
    • Box: Analytical Political Philosophy





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