POLS 110 Lecture Notes - Occupy Movement, Presidential System, Soft Despotism
23 Sep 2013
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It is only in the area of politics where we see formal equality (one person, 1 vote, 1 weight), is only really applied in the electoral arena. Is it about their genetics or is it about the environment. We are a product of the environment we grow up in. We don"t think about responses in our body (breathing), by nature we behave in certain ways, aristotle says politics are as fundamental to who we are as the above. For most people politics is about elections. Everything else however is really the substance. Social creatures, they adapt, thrive, grow and organic. Politics is something that has all those qualities but is also instinctual to who we are. Concepts around politics are the substance of politics. Politics is the study of the state. State (government, legislature, court)=they set rules for society, establishes rules for all of society, establishes the appropriate sphere for the individual. Whether this matter is individual or shared.
