POL 128 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Canadian Dollar, Decision-Making

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Politics and Public Administration
• Course: POL 128
• Professor: Joseph Zboralski

Document Summary

Aristotle said politics is the master science, he felt that politics affects(touches) everything. (looking from a broad sense). Affects all aspects of our lives: determines gas prices, value of canadian dollar, what kind of health care you are going to have. Politi(cid:272)s origi(cid:374)ated fro(cid:373) the greek (cid:449)ord (cid:862)polis(cid:863) means city/state: politics is an activity which the ancient greeks invented. They believed that it is important for people to be involved in politics and community. You come to understand other people problems and needs: participating in community affairs (politics) was considered to be very important activity, developed very early version of democracy. Members of community come together and argue, vote, and make decisions. Only one person had to make decisions on what to eat, if they should move, who should watch guard. In big countries, nowadays political governments make decisions (liberal party). Go(cid:448)"t of ca(cid:374)ada (cid:373)ade de(cid:272)isio(cid:374) to sell (cid:373)ilitar(cid:455) (cid:449)eapo(cid:374)s to audi ara(cid:271)ia.