Political Ideas Final!!!

The King is the People

The popular sovereignty of the people can coexist with the absolute monarchical rule. The king rules in the interest of the people.

Reconciliation

One of the three ways the people express power. Reconciliation refers to the people reconciling individual and collective wills when acting in politics.

Two Humors

Machiavelli’s famous theory. The nobles desire to dominate, while the plebs desire to not be dominated.

The Social Contract

Rousseau talked about this, come back*

The Categorical Imperative

How the general will becomes a reconciliation of individual and collective will. Emmanuel Kant explained this. You can’t act on anything that you can’t desire for anyone else as well.

A Problem of Arithmetic

Edmund Burke discussed this, it explains issues regarding decision making based on the impulses of the many.

A Part of a Nation

Quote from Fredrick Douglass, what are the consequences of exclusion from a nation? the American revolution was hypocritical and hollow of meaning.

Proto-intersectionality

The experiences of black women vs. white women vs. the experiences of black men. Black women are uniquely marginalized. Concept discussed by Soujourner Truth.

Simultaneity

Benedict Anderson uses this to talk about how we imagine we are apart of a larger national community. Print capitalism makes us think we have simultaneity.

Alienation

Capitalism alienates us from ourselves, other people and nature (people working in factories, disconnected from life); illustrates this cncept through species-being.

Species-Being

Marx ‘s concept, links with alienation, what makes us a species is our creative labor, bringing ideas to life. In capitalism, this is stolen from us.

A World Cut into Two

Spacial segregation is a process of dehumanization ex: borders, surveillance

Violence as a Praxis

One must seize the violence that structures the world in order to transform it. Starts with the problem of spacial segregation.