Lecture 2 Flashcards
Politics
A set of practices, discourse, and institutions that seek to create order
The Political
A space of power, conflict, and antagonism. The dimension of antagonism which is inherent in human societies
Ontic
related to politics. what is real
Ontological
related to the political, how we relate to the world
Friend/Enemy
A thought by Carl Schmidt from an antagonistic view??
Us/Them, We/They
We/They can become antagonistic??
Constitutive outside
The creation of an identity implies the establishment of a difference, which is often constructed based on a hierarchy
Passion
Various affective forces which are at the origin of collective forms of identification
Antagonism
A we/they relation in which the two sides are enemies who do not share any common ground. Can be transformed from we/they to a mode that is compatible with pluralist democracy
Agonism
is a we/they relation where the conflicting parties, although acknowledging that there is no rational solution to their conflict, nevertheless recognize the legitimacy of their opponents. adversaries rather than enemies
Liberalism
Based on notions of the individual and rational “man”
Two views of liberalism
- the aggregative position (instrumental rationality)
negotiation to maximize interests - the deliberative position (communicative rationality)
rational moral consensus through free discussion
