POL 2108 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Michel De Montaigne, Tyrant, Natureserve
16 Apr 2017
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Famous for his text and friendship with michel de montaigne: montaigne on friendship: radical friend ship- don"t know the line between one and the other- pretty huge ideal of friendship. Is it philosophy: light on logic and heavy on emotion, different text when expecting philosophy. Highly rhetorical text trying to convince us: portraits of human types, to be disgusted by it, possibility to contemplate being a slave trying to get us to be revolted. Quote from homer : complaining about many people trying to rule. Boetie doesn"t blame ulysses choosing language to meet emergency rather than the truth . State of emergency might undermine our capacity to express truth. Relationship between necessity and truth (hobs thinks we"re always in emergency) Doesn"t go the aristotle route that distinguish between good and perverted forms of regimes. Text that evaluates the phenomenon of domination and why people allow it by tyranny. The way he poses the question is striking.
