POL200Y1 Lecture 1: POL 200 – Lecture 1 – September 15
26 Sep 2016
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Pol 200 lecture 1 september 15. Allegory of the cave book 7. Allegory is about education: prisoners lack an understanding of thing. We live our lives by convention (unnecessarily) Danger: we live our conventions without thinking: we will live as conformists, we might dogmatically resist learning and enlightenment, easier to live in our certainties. Education gradual appreciation of/awakening of natural order that lies beyond convention. True educators assume that everyone has the power to learn. Education has important benefits: liberation (from chains of convention) Coming to understand how things actually are: liberated prisoner can see clearly what is beautiful and. Freedom from tyranny of convention good: we might believe that our conventions are worth upholding but we will do this knowingly rather than just accepting them. In order to be able to see truth as much as possible, what is outside of us and society, what corresponds to the world independent of us.
