POLSCI 2O06 Study Guide - Final Guide: Noble Lie, Intellectual Virtue, Representative Democracy
4 Mar 2014
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3 essay questions: pick 1 first half 40% 3 essay questions: pick 1 second half 40% Ideal society goals of political life violence and legitimacy (ruler) just society. Morality and justice for plato: an absolute morality exists, philosophy helps you find morality, it is with the gods, outside of the cave, outside of daily experience and need philosophy to get there. Plato believes morality is ultimately right and applicable to all; one answer to what"s right. Aristotle: morality is contextual, depnds on one"s direction. Mach: one kind of morality exists only for rulers: political morality. Mach believes in virtu, sometimes you need to do bad in order to do good, special morality for rulers and states. Aris: need to be good all the time. Hobbes and morality: we can be moral until we have a state; first its based on what we find good and bad in a state of nature before we are socialized morality subjective.
