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| Published the Wealth of Nations, arguing that individual rational choices are the ideal way to foster efficient economic activity. |
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| things that we believe are real even though we have never directly experienced them through our 5 senses. |
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| a political ideology that maintains that unrestrained individual human reason cannot take the place of long standing traditional institutions. |
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| a political ideology that emphasizes the belief that people should be generally free from governmental restraints or interference. (The government that governs best, governs least.) |
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| a political ideology that advocates, via revolution, a classless, socialist society in which justice and fairness for the whole prevail over the interest of individuals. (Marx/Lenin) |
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| a personal experiences, preferences, and expectations that we all use to make sense of the world |
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| a political ideology that advocates for a socialist state through democratic means. (like communism but with democratic system & parties.) |
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| things that we directly experience through our 5 senses |
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| a political ideology that argues for the supremacy and purity of 1 group of people or nationality in a society. (Nazi Germany) |
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| a way of looking at the world where the focus in on what we would like to do; what we would like the world to be |
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| the 2 decades between the world wars that were marked by the effort to envision and attain a perfectly peaceful world |
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| the extension of an empires or a nations rule or authority over foreign countries, or the acquisition or holding of colonies and dependencies for the purpose of economic gain |
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| applied utopian thought in his harsh and influential critique of capitalism. |
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| An international institution created after World War I that attempted to bring nations together to peaceably resolve conflict in a form of collective security. |
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| Organizing and directing goal-oriented action. |
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| Field of study characterized by a search for critical understanding of the good political life, significant empirical understanding, and wise political and policy judgments. |
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| A body of work aimed at developing knowledge about politics and political systems |
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| Individual or combined actions of individuals, governments and/or groups aimed at getting what they want accomplished, when those actions have public consequences. |
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| A way of looking at the world where the focus is on what we are able to do; What is possible for the world to be. |
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A political ideology that argues that within a capitalist system, government should play a role in regulating the economy and removing major inequalities.
(Equal society where everyone is given a chance to succeed. No one left behind) |
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| A specific set of rules and processes for pursuing knowledge with observation, hypothesis building, experimentation and replication. |
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| Socially Responsible Investing (SRI) |
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| the purchasing of stock in corporations or acquiring proxy votes from willing corporate stockholders by groups seeking to change or influence the direction of corporate policies. |
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| One who in ancient Greece taught promising young men practical skills such as rhetoric, so they could be successful in public life; they did not focus on metaphysics or ethics |
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