POLI 100 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: On Liberty, Natural And Legal Rights, Ulrich Beck
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Polis = the good life political communities questioning laws, regulations, and institutions trying to improve daily life through politics. As opposed to the mere life basic needs of life, basic reproduction and survival: people as political animals. Animals live the mere life (habitual life, never changing ways or questioning) Humans, as political animals, are naturally inclined to form political communities to pursue the polis. Humans have speech as well as the ability to tell apart just and unjust: feminist politics, the personal is political. Politics exist in housework, sexuality, reproduction, wherever one group of persons is controlled by another. Relations between men and women are political. Freedom in society can be measured by the distribution of orgasms : plato, thrasymachus"s view. Justice is nothing other than the advantage of the stronger . Whatever the stronger believes is to his advantage, the weak must do. This is power, not justice: socrates" counter.
