POLS 2510 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Eisegesis, Hermeneutics, Xenophobia

• School: University of Windsor
• Department: Political Science
• Course: POLS 2510
• Professor: Mr.Duane Falconer

Document Summary

Best order: greatest society, to excel is very important romans, value system: theory is based upon a set of values, objectivity and reason: notion of normativity, its normal to want to excel. Hermeneutics: the study of interpretation: eisegesis: reading into a test (never do this, exegesis: what the text is saying, looking into it. No value for us: universalism: context doesn"t matter, the truth and lessons from past are valuable, engagement: ancient text/history is not so much true or false, but intellectually challenging. Helping us to become more politically aware today. That we can discover insight from the past to understand our politics. How to treat marginalized people: phamokos, xenophobia, determinism: the past (pre) determines the future. Negatively- berlin: constructivism: the past opens up possibilities of humanity -> or limits/mistakes. If one had to dispute over which prince rome was more obligated to,