Some Remarks on the Origins of Absolute Leaders: The Jacobine Politician and his Role in the Political History

Ideology is a comprehensive element for the idealist politician. It has been a field of claims and disputes that characterizes Modern European History of Thought. The theories of Francis Bacon (Barth 1961) and Rousseau gave birth to the basic points of ideologization of the political thought of the European History and that was an effect of the broader European philosophy that oper-ated with the creation of integral and prefabricated forms. Since the Treaty of Westphalia (1648) (Guerevich 1996), the world has shifted from a metaphysical to a cosmic frame and the creation of the political ideology in the European area was formed. The ideologization of political life in modern societies starts from the actions of the Jacobin politician. This kind of ideologization has its historical origins in the European History of the 10th century. Consequently, we could take the Arcadia movement, the theories of Fr. Bacon and Rousseau and the political club, which created Homo Ideologicus as important points in the history of the origin of ideol-ogy, before Destutt de Tracy invented ideology as a term. The ide-ologist politician was characterized by messianic spirit and Manichaeism. On the contrary, the modern politician of globaliza-tions has changed and he becomes an image-maker and a ‘manager-politician’, rejecting the salutary-rational way of thinking. He ideologizes words and he easily changes his opinion. The consecra