POLI1041 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Conversion Disorder, Asthma, Endangerment
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A. last influence was the theory of the human being. Plato knows you need to know mans nature to understand politics (a. 2. a. 1) (a. 2. a. 2) human motivation is necessary to get to the best political system. Freud - understanding what makes people tick can infer about what the best political system could be. Freud"s letter to einstein (why war?: written in 1922. A. 2. leagues of nations gave einstein the job to find a thinker to ask the most prominent issue facing mankind asks freud. A. 2. b: freud had already written a book called civilization and its discontents. B. 1. c) these two are always in conflict within human beings (b. 1. c. 1) these two forces keep you from moving forward. B. 2. civilization exists because people sublimate the feeling of love for people coolest to them into wider connections with friends. B. 2. a) loyalty to wider circles including the nation and further to the entirety of man kind.