PSCI 1100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Don Draper, Soft Despotism, Political Philosophy
8 Apr 2016
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Idea that poliical acivity is synonymous w/ gov acivity you think about gov, not ciizens acively paricipaing in state afairs. Your role as a ciizen is to delegate this power, through elecions. According to mill, this can lead to impoverished understanding of poliics something you do one day every 4/5 ys: limit of your poliical engagement, even if you do that (~60%) According to mill not v healthy poliical syst. Ex tendency of gov to persuade us that we should leave poliics to them, you worry about your own private afairs, let us handle the poliical issues. Ex ppl should do for themselves what they can do, the gov should do only the gov can do (what ppl can"t do for themselves) Mill may have prob w/ a gov that grants more and more social services danger to the freedom of individuals.
