POLI 231 Study Guide - Comprehensive Final Exam Guide - Karl Marx, Colonialism, Canada
20 Nov 2018
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To take a more critical stance on our own values: we study questions of reconciliation, for example, why should indigenous people be reconciled to the canadian system. These are aspirational questions which political philosophy helps us decide. Antigone: background: there is not yet a concept of the west . We read it so that we can decide if it is worth reading. A contemporary concern about reading it is that we romanticize subjects, have misguided nostalgia and look for secret truths because it is ancient text, even though there are problematic characteristics (like the subordination of women, etc). To some contemporary theorists, we are not as much like the ancient greeks as we might like to believe, and we might use the ancients to validate some aspects of contemporary society. There is not just one perspective of what truth is in antigone.
