POLC72H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Bourgeoisie, Proletariat, False Consciousness
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Impossible for one to be a good person and a good politician. Thinks about how the world is, not how the world ought to be. Human nature: wicked, evil impulse, insatiable appetites, poor judgment. Virt -moral connotation: flexibility, foresight and vision, boldness. Fortuna-luck: contingent-something that cant be predicted, disruptive-human affairs, being flexible and help this. How is political liberty possible given human nature, history, and (cid:1) Argument: liberty- no one can tell you what your best interests are: non-domination. Good laws-sparta had good laws that lasted 100 years. He wrote music, a bit narcotic stole ideas allegedly. Romanticism: started later/was a reaction to enlightenment, end of 18th beginning of 19th century, feeling is everything, related to personal passion, what is natural to human beings, foundation in individual but focused on passion o. Enlightenment: self-determination is a legitimate form of gov"t, reason is foundation, separates it from romanticism (cid:1)
