POLI 100 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Analects, Ibm Basic, Cultural Relativism
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He saw politics as the master science of the good . That is a science and practice that is concerned ultimately with all forms of knowledge and understanding that might involve the pursuit of human well-being and justice throughout society: aristotle politics book 1. Quote explanation from aristotle: when several villages are united into a single huge community they learn to eventually thrive together and live for the sake of the good life : people by nature are political animals. Man is the only animal with the gift of speech. Defines politics in terms of social relationships that involve power, rule and authority. Let us bodly define a political system as any persistent pattern of human relationships and involves, to a significant extent. The basic idea is the suggestion that even our most intimate relationships- concerning such things as sexuality housework, family life, gender roles- are shaped by and shaped into brouder gendered relationship in power and society.
