POLS 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Socratic Method, Tyrant
26 Oct 2016
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Discuss, modify all differences which is compatible to both sides. Things come unexpected, foreign policies for example. Both parties come into agreement if there is enough support. If two sides are both equal, certain number of ministers in one party and other party would have the minister from their party. Over the last 10 years, very little discussion of policies because decided internally. Members of parliament decide the central line. Could look at it as food for debate. Inclusive to unpresidented degree in organizing participation such as excluding women and. No society had allowed ordinary citizens any ability to influence public affair. Paradox: quite exclusive, only full citizens, men were allowed to vote and participate. Yet inclusive if you compare to any other society that existed at that time or preceded 3000 years. Central concern of athenian constitution society and government was the idea that participants must be equal. This equality needed to be ensured in practice day after day.
