POLT12200 Quiz: Exam #1 Notes
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Political philosophy as a field is a normative discipline. It focuses on how things out to be rather than how they are. One must argue rationally and cannot take a middle ground, since others are severely affected by decisions. City-states are named as such because they involved the surrounding rural areas. A conversation between crito and socrates in socrates"s prison cell. The implied contract is unequal (adhesion contract): to break a binding contract is to act unjustly. You cannot commit one injustice to escape another. The state of nature: the state of nature is a concept in political philosophy to denote the hypothetical conditions of what the lives of people might have been like before societies came into existence. Hobbes: believed that the state of nature was absolutely unbearable. Evolution made it so every man is equal in strength and intelligence. Meaning that it was a constant state of. Gangs would launch pre-emptive strikes as a form of defense.
