POLS 1000 Lecture Notes - Fall 2018 Lecture 3 - Evi (software), Hoplite, Critical thinking
20 Sep 2018
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Pols 1000 introduction to politics lecture week 3. Idea #2: kundara; distinction between ignorance and stupidity: ignorance: the idea of not knowing/lack of knowledge, stupidity: non-thought of received ideas. Idea #3: bourgeois: importance of abstraction for thought: through abstraction we reduce elements, we put aside secondary ideas, we focus on what is important. Chapter 1: introduction to democracy: polis; the way of life, athenian 5th and 4th century will be crucial for the world for they invited democracy as. September 19, 2018: we can"t get rid of athenians because the term politics itself is derived from the world polis, for athenians polis was the natural human habitat. September 19, 2018: also the realm of equality. No citizen will be more equal than another. In summary, the polis as a way of life is a life spent within the community, a community based on a quest for excellence.
