Discuss the role of ideas (i.e., mental images) in the various models (or templates or blueprints) by which we metaphorically describe action, interpret action, evaluate what is right, and conceive of the ordering of our lives.

DIRECTIONS: ¶¶
NOTE > In the essay, use at least 3
ideologies; and the Platonic philosophical perspective

Write a reflective essay about the various models
–also known as conceptual frameworks – that we have studied throughout the course.

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Discuss the role of ideas
(i.e., mental images) in the various models (or templates or blueprints) by
which we metaphorically describe action, interpret action, evaluate what is
right, and conceive of the ordering of our lives.

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How do these models provide a
symbolically constructed framework with representational qualities and
particular vantage points?

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How do these models
comprehend what the world is and fire our imagination to contemplate what the
world is not?

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How do ideologies connect to
some truth of one’s commitment to ultimate purposes and values, rather than to
the truth of the scientific, philosophical or historiographic community?

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What is the link between
populism and the authoritarian personality?

The topics include: populism, the authoritarian personality study, fascism, marx’s theory of social structure, socialism/ social democracy, conservatism, liberalism, (arguing, framing, modeling, Machiavelli’s Science of Statecraft, What We Learn from Machiavelli’s Discourses, The medieval movement away from classical political theory of Greece and the roman republic, ROMAN & MEDIEVAL
CHRISTIAN POLITICAL THOUGHT, ARISTOTLE:
Associations, Community & Constitutions, Myth, Representation
& The Allegory of the Cave, The Four Cities, Three Virtues & Justice as the Master
Virtue, The Influence of Socrates & Plato’s Theme of Going Down,
Turning Around and Going Back Up, What is Justice?:: Debates at the Home of Cephalus.

JUST PICK like 10 to 12 you’re familiar with.

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