Political Science Exam #1 Study Guide We are all liberals Women and Children: regulation of sexual intercourse Guardians: three groups, born with silver in their soul and they are like the police; to protect the city of Kallipolis Qualitative and Quantitative: more than one way of studying political science Quantitative: statistics, numbers Qualitative: Normative, subjective Allegory of the cave: the good; what the philosopher kings see as good and true, in the allegory the sun was seen as the good and true, The shadows and illusions are the key to the story, we can add our own interpretation of the shadows, the cave represents our world, the things that distract us but also keep us in line(shadows and illusions), social constructions, speech to the cope of human capacity of knowledge, who we think we are and what we know to be true, prisoners thought they were free, apply it to something contemporary today Human nature: social construction, “he hit me because he loves me”, skepticism of human nature The political: What is common to the whole, matters if common concern, justice, your experience with the system, authority and legitimacy of the state; what is common to the whole is antagonism and it is up to politics to alleviate those conflicts which would expand the political. The political is more economics issues, you see the political in the classroom; anywhere your voice is heard. Understand the order of regimes matters, something about democracy, Socrates thoughts, democracy is the best of the worst, chaotic, the poor killed the rich, the danger to democracy is the freedom people have, the value most cherished in a democracy, dangers: democracy is in your hands, you have to care or else it won’t work Justice: justice is benefitting ones friends and harming ones enemies, Thrash; “ the advantage of the stronger, an unjust man will always get more then the just man”, laws about immigration and gay marriage, Justice is never concrete it is not static. Justice is more or less up in the air, Socrates; “virtue and wisdom, injustice is vice and ignorance The noble lie: what keeps order and structure, it resolves uncertainty, there is no question of where you stand, no competition. Establishes order and removes uncertainty in our society that occurred in Kallipolis. Philosopher kings: born with gold in their souls (the myths of metals), rulers of Kallipolis, the noble lie is passed in between philosopher kings, they see the good in the lie