POLI 300B Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Social Forces
16 Jan 2018
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Chapter 3- on hereditary: didn"t go over in class, read and understand chapter. Astrologist views: machiavelli is reversing the culture, not heaven, time. You will be a force in the present, see what you did and imitate you. New understanding of what the world is. Virtu vs fortuna, man working alongside nature. Life on earth is contingent, you need to know how to think/skeptical about universal truths (christians/god or plato/greeks) How practically to do it? (secure liberty, freedom, virtu) violence is to be minimized at all costs and eradicated. Politics is a work of art ch. 8 economical with truth vs economical with violence virtu with the least violence is most successful, little as possible. Christianity is not a basis for a political community that will be memorable. Key: humanism is much nicer than christianism. City requires a different morality than the church and more preferable.
