POL101Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Normative Economics, Instrumentalism
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Polsci lecture 2 politics, power, authority, legitimacy, the state. Going to look at key concepts of polititics. Aristolte stand at beginning of western politictical philosophy. Weber stands at beginning of modern social sciences. School of athens picture- depicts philosphoers/thinkers of most of fourth century b. c. All studies on a before fourth century bc. Part of the reason we started there was arbitrary. One movement moves from mythodlogical explaination events in the world. Aristotle and plato are great grandfathers of political sceience. Plato: gemotry, search for ideal, not empirical, regime type based on moral psychology, philosphers and truth central belived there was truths in politics we could figure out. Aristole belived society would thrive if there was difference. Politics is for citizens not subject: ruling. Ruling: master/slave, statesman/citzen are not the same. Masters do not rule slaves they use slaves. He defends slavery: is problematic for us. Ruling is a natural heiarchy according to him.
