POG 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Environmentalism, Islamism, Liberal Feminism

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Politics and Public Administration
• Course: POG 100
• Professor: Patrice Dutil

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Quee(cid:374)"s (cid:272)oat of ar(cid:373)s: (cid:373)y god a(cid:374)d (cid:373)y right, da(cid:373)(cid:374)atio(cid:374) to others (cid:449)ho thi(cid:374)k other(cid:449)ise. Struggle to move away for legitimacy coming from god. Socrates: we must contest power of people who pretend are legitimate. Socrates was put to death because of dissenting views. Thoughts of socrates mostly expressed by plato. Plato: wrote about socrates: idea of allegory of the cave; people are reacting to politics as if they are reading from a cave wall. All they are seeing are works on a wall: we are removed from politicians. Philosophers should rule: most disinterested, thoughtful, and thus least susceptible to corruption. The (cid:862)golde(cid:374) (cid:373)ea(cid:374)(cid:863) is the (cid:449)ay of (cid:373)oderatio(cid:374). Thi(cid:374)gs ha(cid:448)e two extremes but we need middle way. If rulers are drawn from rich, they will not understand plight of the poor. One side is cowardice other is foolhardiness. Rule from the middle, in other words the middle class. If poor runs people, they will simply seek revenge.