Ancient And Medieval Politicak Philosophy

As a quest for wisdom is quest for universal knowledge for knowledge of the whole.

It is the attempt truly to know both the nature of political things in the right or the good political order.

It is about the vision of the good social life but what ought to be the ruling set of values and institutions that combine men and women altogether?

The greek thinkers engaged with essentially ethical, ____ questions about politics in this way political philosophy was born.

Political philosophers have never limited themselves to?

The central ultimate concern has been with the ___

The optimal political goal urgently calls for

It is a philosophical reflection and have the best to arrange a collective life or political institutions and social practices such as their economic system and pattern of family life.

Political philosophers have been explicitly____ asking what is most desirable for society and most just

(t or f) Ultimately political philosophers have a look for the best social and political order.

(T or F ) From its very beginning political philosophy has been essentially a normative theory that would identify sources of good in a political community and prescribe a solution in the form of an ordering vision of what the community ought to become.

For him political philosophy was to restore order in both societies and human soul.

For him political philosophy task was to organise political communities according to reason and justice.

Political philosophy is____

Ideas of political philosophers transcend their own times and continue to provide us with questions and answer concerning our own political problems. (t or f)

It is the guiding theme of political philosophy rather than the laws.

It is the order the form which gives society its character and therefore a specific manner of life it is the manifestation of domination of society by human beings of a certain type.

It analyses and interprets ideas like freedom justice authority and democracy applying them in a critical way to the social and political institutions that currently exist.

It is often referred to as normative theory and speculative theory because it relies heavily on the history of political thought and manifested as part of history and humanity.

This kind of theories pertains to values

This kind of theory is difficult to be confirmed or refuted

It refers to the dimensions of conceptual schemes that select and organise Information about the political world for exploratory purposes.

It explains political life through interpretations of perceptions attitudes of benients and norm

It is for concerns that are not immediately explanatory because it typically involve questions having to do with theoretical orientation as well as questions of judgment about truth and value.

3 distinct categories of the problems of political philosophy.

This term refers to the science that investigates the nature of fundamental properties of reality nature of the political world that needs to be explained.

These questions have to do with the authority of theories with respect to the world they purport to explain articulating accounts of the authority of social scientific interpretations of interpretive phenomena.

These questions have to do with normative judgment.

We usually call something "____"If it concerns collective decision making where the questions what ought we to do is always implicit

It is unique among the social sciences in that its domain is preconceived by normative question.

(t or f)Individuals act politically when they are normatively oriented toward collective problems.

They articulate dimensional politics when they reconstruct and analyse the normative dimension of political discourse.

What is the aim of political philosophy?

The current renaissance of political theory reflects a growing rigor and understanding political life about the nature of the political world and about how it is possible to know and judge it.

Often regarded as the father of realism in international relations.

He was a historian and an original political thinker best known for his description and analysis of the political events that occurred during the below peloponnesian war.

Succeeded this is the 1st political thinker who attempted to answer questions like what would life be like in the state of nature in the world before civilisation?By looking at the historical evidence available to him.

What would life be like in the state of nature in the world before civilisation? would it be an ideal existence in harmony with nature or a Brutish one? what would life be like without a government?

The book written by 2 cities where he described the emergence and growth of athenian civilisation.

The advent of civilisation comes with the establishment of

According to thucydides, this kind of living requires an authority capable of enforcing order and providing security.

The advent of civilisation is recognizable by the presence of these 2 interrelated factors.

Achievements of material factors are described in Athenian leader Percles' speech called

He views the highest achievements of civilisations are not buildings or works of art or even institutions but individual and public qualities known as virtues.

It is a great city because of the virtue and Intelligence of its citizens.

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The political theory is about the.

It is concerned with such normative issues the best political order respect for law, tolerance, openness, courage moderation, prudence, fraternity, and prosperity.

This city at its highest development exemplifies a civilised community of citizens participating willingly and freely in public life.

It is a political society based not only on individual self interest but also when the virtues of its members stand ready to support and defend the common good.

He is a master at depictin contrasting situations.

Immediately after portraying the greatness of the athenian civilisation in the funeral oration he explored the theme of vulnerability of a political community and his account of the plague that strikes during the second year of the war.

It is something that stroke athens during the second year of the war.

The occurrence of these events show the fragility of ethical achievement of civilisation in the face of the ultimate struggle for survival.

He observed the morals easily deteriorate and most people cannot hold on to ethical values when their survival is threatened.

It is a violent teacher.

It puts into jeopardy everything that has been achieved by civilisation

The 3rd thing that eroded and give way to wicked decisions Revenge private ambitions and greed

These are the 2 chief reasons why Athens finally lost to the Peloponessian war

Before his death he tried to convince the athenians they have to see their own interests as inseparable from the larger collective interests of the polis

He had a pessimistic view of human nature.

To him human being or not naturally virtuou