POLI 201 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Political Philosophy, Comparative Politics, Class Conflict
20 Jan 2017
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Is a mechanism where its makes decisions based on politics. Process of building coalitions of support to obtain rank, it an action, a thing that we do. Concerned with important decisions focus on government because it is government that makes life and death decisions. People under government in a political community are called citizens. Civil, civilization, & civic comes from the same word. Is the systematic study of government and politics. One of the oldest studies in the world comes from ancient greek, is ancient tradition. Plato & aristotle are the fathers of the political science, each living 400 years before christ. Aristotle wrote that man/human being is a political animal, to be human is to do politics in some sense to understand human relationships/ to make human lives better (what the focus is supposed to be. Political science is about asking questions, and is a moral practice.
