PHILOS 1100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Totalitarianism
19 Oct 2016
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Democracy: founding fathers -> federalist papers (written to garner support for the. Balance of power: two houses consisting of house of representatives and senate. House of reps - in the moment response / responds to people and what they want. Senate - cool down / be the more re ective body. Democracy is messy: ship of state metaphor - book 4. We"re like a bunch of sailors on a trip who deny that navigation is a science or that someone knows navigation better than someone else. Plato believes in the science of politics: rooted in the idea that their are experts in value. State of ship: other sailors think they should be sailors. Plato and those believe that socrates death by the athenian state was a seminal moment. Both were deemed threats to the political order. Should each of your desires and ect. rule your body.
