POL200Y1 Lecture : notes
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We live our lives by convention e. g. children must learn conventions in order to perform in life. The danger becomes that we live our lives as conformists. Upon seeing the light, the prisoners feel safe in their convictions. Why continue digging into the nature of our values: here, the puppeteers are also in the cave and live their lives believing that reproducing/following convention is their goal o. The prisoners find it difficult to walk past their puppeteers - and by extension. Convention and face the light: awakening oneself to the order which underlies convention is plato"s most memorable image, education is not easy o o. The danger is conformity; hence, education grants liberation. Education will free you from those beliefs which are not your own/ beliefs you can not endorse upon reflection. Pol200 mission statement: liberate ourselves from the tyranny of our conventional beliefs o. To do this, we study both the makers of our conventional beliefs (hobbes,
