POL 2107 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Doxa, Political Philosophy

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Political Science
• Course: POL 2107
• Professor: Joseph Roman

Document Summary

Plato: the political must be differentiated from other aspects of human life (ex. economics) Political arts was the most important of all the arts. Plato saw political society as a political incoherent hole. Rst to see society as a system of differentiated roles- each had a speci c function- contribution to sustaining the whole of society- each had rights, duties, expectations= guide for human behaviour. After plato: one of the distinctive marks of political philosophy was an an approach of political society as a functioning system- based on good values and morality. Fully comprehensible to the human mind- you could in uence politics and human development - the political order could be shaped. Political knowledge was essentially a side of oder for plato- traced the proper relationship between people, looked at sources of evil in the community, Aimed at trans guring in light of the vision of the political good.