Ideology
In general usage, refers to the body of doctrine,
myth and symbols of a social movement, a social class or institution. Many sociologists use the term with particular reference to the set of beliefs, attitudes and/or practices that overtly or covertly serve the interests of one particular group, government or social class as opposed to serving universal interests.
From your syllabus.
Philosophy
1. the rational investigation of the
truths and principles of being, knowledge, or conduct.
This is from
Dictionary.com
So briefly, ideology concerns symbols, beliefs and
myths while philosophy is only concerned with
truth (note there is no "truth" mentioned in the definition of ideology and no "myths" in philosophy).
Now, there is a great difference between myth and truth. Going back to dictionary.com, it defines myth as:
a traditional or legendary story, usually concerning some being or hero or event, with or without a determinable basis of fact or a natural explanation...
and truth as:
actuality or actual existence looking at definition 5 as this relates most.
So, myth is just basically imaginary stories, there is no way of really knowing if that event has actually occurred so it can be false whereas truth deals with facts [with reference history].
So it may be a myth that, for example, siddartha had saw the three signs of suffering. But it may be a fact that he meditated which is implemented in Buddism today. These are only examples, so don't quote me on this though many people say Buddhism is based on philosophical values
edit: I just read over it and hope you understood what I just said. I just took each concept and took one aspect from each, defining it further in order to differentiate them [ie myth and truth]
