POL 2107 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Political Philosophy
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What m simply believed was that the oncepts of previous political thought were no longer meaningful they weren"t meaningful for his time. And this was because it no longer delt with phenomena with politics. M was opposed to church rule it wasn"t political enough. For m this was simply the church regimes maintained their princes in power regardless in the way they acted and the way they lived. The outcome a highly self conscious notion of what matters were truly important to political theory and understanding. Political theory contributed to the fundamental tendencies of the renaissance. Modernity he abandoned mideival thought, rejection of tradition norms like natural law, his pragmatic message of analysis and exclusive anaylsis of power. changes of insititutional forms, social structure that rended traditional norms obsolete. Pol now emerge with a hereditary principle and traditionalism was loosing its rule. The changes in types of leadership, this is when m had no use for hereditary.