POLI 2P91 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Partialism, Odysseus, Ice-T
25 Sep 2015
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She also gives militarily strategy and is right. Women are not listened to because of social status. Achilles a warrior hero (might makes right?) Achilles" choices: 2 lives (ix 340ff, 415ff) Many voices debating what best life is. Agamemnon sends odysseus, ajax and phoenix to give achilles money and women. Now achilles realizes what he"s been working for (reputation, glory and prizes) are worthless. Anger with agamemnon is rational but is wrong to turn gifts away. He will learn through loss of patroclus. Achilles is only one who can step back from cultural norms. Doing philosophic things (only one able too) Hector doesn"t do anything wrong (except human error) Or, why you should read the iliad if you"re part of the 99% Do crime because top 1% have already done their crime (aboriginals and african. Start from the family and expand duties (parents, elders in village, king) so maybe. Then move out to elders in village and eventually the king.
