POL S 1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Political Philosophy, Dialectic, Irony
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University learning is here to expand your thinking. Explore other ideas, outside of typical comfort zone. Encouraging others to question what they think they know. Also wants you to question what others think they know as well. Philosophy fears decisions and doesn"t want to seek the end, but value the acquisition of there. Death of philosophy is once you make a decision and implement it. To put politics and philosophy together is a paradox. Strauss wants us to embrace this paradox and feel the tension that keeps us questi and moving forward. Plato - the republic (reading assignment #1: book 2 and pgs. Big conversation about the big question of what is justice. Main question in this entire writing is "what is justice?" Written from the perspective of socrates, who was plato"s teacher and never wrote anyth down. Plato uses socrates as a narrator in the republic.
