PHIL2634 Study Guide - Final Guide: Direct Democracy
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Nature of the citizen-separation of individual and state. Ancient liberty as civic and participatory, modern liberty as chiefly private and commercial. Plato"s engages in interpreting the divine order and to be one mind about important matters rather than trying to balance conflicting interests. Aristotle thought that this purif(ies) politics to death as it relegates politics, an important human activity, to the divine. Specifically, such political passivity" results from the strict hereditary stratification of society that suppresses the expression of individualism. Rather, one"s life purpose and place in society was extrinsic to the state. Thus, success in life is narrowly predestined by birth as "one man cannot practice many arts with success . This goes beyond a sense of public duty but points to a hegelian notion of a state having an independent existence that requires the merging of individual needs with the needs of the state. This is epitomised in socrates responses to thrarsymachus"s challenge using the concept of.
