PHIL 1010Y Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Prefigurative Politics
9 Jan 2016
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The view which is the opposition to authority. Principle resistance to all forms of domination and authority. Realizing that individualism is a social phenomenon (this is for the reason that individuals need other individuals in order to grow and develop in our society) Anarchists believe that as persons, we are all second persons, meaning that we come to be only by being connected through another person. Occupy anarchist: refuses to recognize the legitimacy of state institutions: do not issue demands because that would be an act of recognizing the legitimacy of the state. Friday, january 8, 2016: answer the a higher moral order not legal order, refuse to create an internal hierarchy, they act democratically, this means there is no formal leader: collective decisions are made, embrace pre gurative politics. Anarchism is seen as more directly rooted to democracy: eliminate social relations, painted by systematic threat of force. Are anarchists against organizations: only against ones with a hierarchy.
