01:790:101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Sheldon Wolin, Political Philosophy, Montesquieu
5 Oct 2018
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Wrote during the student protest in 1960s. Political theory should contribute to our understanding of contemporary politics. Use experience to theorize, responding in part to the behavioral revolution in political science. Political theory about more than reading texts". How you get to the ideal of politics will differ from one person to another. Pg 13 security for man is impossible unless it be conjoined with power. (machiavelli) There can be no true allegiance and there must remain perpetual seeds of resistance against a power that is built upon such an unnatural foundation, as that of fear and terrour (halifax) As soon as man enters into a state of society he loses the sense of this weakness; equality ceases, and then commences the state of war (montesquieu) Kinda just the foundation and the beginning controlling factor. The ability to control and organize all members of society through. The ability for a to make b do x.
