AmEx+samples++ideas

1st: google dosc: you need a gmail or yahoo email to use google docs: if you don't, go to google.com and create an account. Use a familiar username and password(e.g. your umb). With your account you can click docs directly. 2. create a document called: yourname_ AE 3. sort through your notes and begin to draft a discussion about the nature of AE and the nature of the debates about AE 4. check out the ideas below... How can and cannot a ideology be good or bad?

Based on the ciontent of the ideas themselves, as well as Trying to assess the positive and negative faces p fab ideology like AE is inherently challenging to the extent that by definition, most ideologies are flawed systems that mix fantasy, wishful thinking and grounded, reasonable assumptions about how the world was, is and should be. In other words, ideologies aren’t a collection of just any ideas; they are not neutral because we use them to guide and excuse our decisions

in order to assess the merits of AE, it is essential to define and analyze AE, consequently, it is also necessary to define and analyze ideologies because the ideas associated with AE form an ideology, there are two levels of discussion: the indivuduak concepts that make up the phrase and the phrase itself as an ideology that has historical orgins abd identifiable featrires.

AE = “pure virtues or good & bad”(‘vices’) Thesis: AE **as** an ideology & its good & bad aspects as distinct from the US as a historical reality
 * 1) Since Ae is an ideology, it has to have both “good & bad faces” because most ideologies consist of elements that are distortions of reality in ways that can create advantages for some people that automatically create disadvantages for others
 * 2) 2. Ae has both positive and negative components in the sense that
 * 3) 3. AE is the particular ideology about the US’s uniqueness that is characterized by a belief that the country has a sacred mission that exempts it from common expectations for any country
 * 4) 4. The good faces of AE include generosity with humanitarian aid, a strong civil liberties while the bad faces include an arrogant double standard in foreign policy and blindness to the country’s shortcomings with those liberties and values.
 * 5) 5. Self-interest & ideologies

Elements of AE—the ideology not the country AE is an ideology that claims the US is unique, superior to other nations and exempt from certain obligations and expectations that other countries must meet.
 * 1) Superiority
 * 2) Exempt: privilege & advantage
 * 3) We were first! E.g.

Support our position by arguing for it and against other positions


 * Problems with the other positions: explain how pure virtue o pure vice doensmt work**
 * make my case

USING THE QUESTION TO CONSTRUCT YOUR ESSAY
 * 1) 1. What are ideologies?
 * 2) 2. What do they do?
 * 3) 3. WHAT Are some limits?
 * 4) 4. How do they operate/function?
 * 5) 5. What makes them potentially controversial?
 * 6) 6. How can they have a moral dimension?

Tackling these questions by Starting with concrete ideologies: