POL SCI 119 Lecture 4: Lec 2.2: The Man Who Shot Liberty Valence
Document Summary
Athena establishes out individuals and puts them into the community (solution) Thematic similarity between greek tragedy and american midwest. Gunslinger and lawyer combined and shows how it"s not true, movie about myth- making and how/why we need them in politics. Question of if we need legends and those behind it. Self-consciously simplified; archetypes: social and political info/facts > focuses on the key concepts and tools for thinking about legends. What it means to be a human, making rules w/o a set guide, the frontier. Characters are simplified forces of nature, larger-than-life characters. Instituting law, the state, political community in contrast w/ heroic age of individuals. How to form a democratic community w/ boundaries on the people > slightly undermines the people. Relates to movie from the men who are the gunslinger and the lawyer. Wild, but w/ principles and a standard of behavior. Transformation from: mannered > unmannered, shifts from doniphon to.
