PO101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Gross Domestic Product, Socratic Method, Mixed Government
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Concept update: good governance, gross domestic product (gdp), gross national product (gnp), human development index, Those ideas are taken up by other political philosophers and so now. Proposition that leads to a conclusion: empirical observation: based on facts and data. Are you on the right track: proponent of argument, he developed the socratic method (socrates would always make people define certain things and keep questing others) Machiavelli (1469 - 1527) humans have desire for control: in italy when they it was serrated into different powers of different families etc, most famous book is the prince, ethics and ideals are secondary. Need to harness human desire power and control because the basic of human nature is that people want to control. Hobbes everyone will kill each other: devine right of kings: all kings came from god, the social contract theory: , natural state is one of freedom brutality.
