POLS 1150 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Individualism

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Political Science
• Course: POLS 1150
• Professor: Carol L Dauda

Document Summary

Socrates demonstrates the flaw of conventional understanding of justice and says that the human soul has 3 parts: a rational part, a spirited or courageous part, an appetitive part. For the city has 3 classes corresponding to the 3 parts of the soul: the guardians (the rational class, auxiliaries(the spirited class) Justice in the city consists of each class performing its proper function. Individuals are determined by nature for one class or another. Thinkers from the medieval era: aquinas and machiavelli: aquinas was 16 centuries after aristotle and niccolo machiavelli another 250 years after. Aquinas. (shows that nothing much was happening politically in between) Thomas hobbes: shaping english politics in the mid-1600s. Government and self- interest: purpose of government is the security and safety of the individuals governed that it delivers a framework of stability, it doesn"t matter how government comes to be.