POLS 344 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Carrying Capacity, Free Trade, Human Nature
29 Apr 2016
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The essence of government is power; and power, lodged as it must be in human hands, will be abuse. james madison 1829. Possiblility of imposing ones own will upon the behavior of other persons. Power: influence is defined as a relation among actors in which one actor induces other actors in which one actor induces other actor to act in a certain way they would not do other wise . Ability of a politicial actor to achieve its goals. Will to power and the will to submission are interconnected. The process through which a society settles its conflicts. The process that determines whose values will prevail. Submit to person in power because of the supreme god back leader. Curious, social thinkers with big brains, vocal cords and opposable thumbs. Individuals are different but in groups we act similarly and have the usual distributions. We survive by extracting energy from the environment and turn it into more of us.
