POL 2107 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: System On A Chip, Philosopher King, Resurrection
2 Feb 2018
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He wanted to take out the civil in politics (never tidy). Plato taught later writers to think of political society as a coherent whole. He viewed it in the round as a system of interrelated functions and order structures. Each had rights duties and expectations and these provided definite guides for human behaviour and define the place of the individual within the system within society. One of the distinctive marks for pol phi was its approach ot society as a functioning system and further more whats important is that the system isn"t to be separate to morality its based on certain morals. The whole range of political phenomena is to be fully comprehensible and malleable (you can change it). Through the master signs of pol phi that the pol order could be shaped and ultimately it could be shaped by recognizable good (knowledge of the good).
