POLS 1000 Lecture 3: POLS 1000 Sept 27th

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Easy climate will make human interaction and public life easier: they were curious about the meaning of life. They had an open minded approach, and impartiality arrives in the western world thanks to the greeks. They had a love of beauty and harmony. They had an innate sense of the importance of politics. The greek contribution is so important that the world politics comes from the polis. For the ancient greeks the polis was the natural human habitat, politics was a normal way of life. An existence devoid of politics cannot be a truly human existence, being political meant expressing yourself as a human being. These considerations lead us to the important greek excellence in all things human: exam. The greeks discovered an equilibrium between the citizen and the polis (community) In order to define yourself as a distinct human being you have to partake in political life and public affairs. Being political meant expressing who you are.

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