POLI 300B Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Man Man, Temporality, Arab Spring

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Creating something is more difficult, people like to be comfortable. Machiavelli basing his writing on the imperfection of humans. Classification, dividing the world, everyone classifying things in order to survive. The entire world of politics is divided into two categories-> individual in freedom and virtu. Humans can create, first couple of chapters are heresy (cid:498)god made the world perfect(cid:499) Machiavelli- god didn"t create the world- man did- he was a human sympathier, doesn"t believing in creation by god, man as competing with god. Build upon what you"ve got, don"t cling on to something else to be free. > why would you want to go to heaven where nothing changes, florence is blooming. Need to create florence as self determining- two ways- one man or all of the people. Republican- the people, how do the inahbitants of a community make itself free. Need the principle of virtu, who is able to create a people (substitute for god)

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