Politics, You, and Democracy Flashcards
(19 cards)
According to Aristotle, a human being is a
Political animal
Who gets what, when, and how
Harrold Lasswell
Politics in a collectivity.
They believe that politics is the root of many problems that may not look political
Leftwich
What is the greek word for “affairs of the state”?
polis
What is the Latin word for “affairs of the state”?
res publica
Implies that there are affairs which do not belong to the state, and are not political
Michael Oakeshott
Politics is reserved to the
statesmen and stateswomen
it is like a signal from the world, but one of the world’s problems with the world is that it sends many signals and sometimes so many that, taken together, they constitute a noise
Intimations
refines the meaning of politics as state affairs by defining politics as the authoritative allocation of values in a society
David Easton (1956)
defines politics as any activity involving human beings associated together in relationship of power and authority where conflict occurs
Robert Dahl
politics is one that relates it to government
Miller (1962)
Politics is a way of ruling in divided societies without violence
Bernard Crick
Tyranny of the majority
Alexis de Tocqueville
consider state as the highest of all social organizations
Aristotle and Jean jacques Rousseau
the state is like medicine; it is needed because man is sick
St. Augustine of Hippo
the state is like food; it is needed for man’s nourishment
St. Thomas of Aquinas
the state is a necessity that is higher and outside personal life, family life, and social life
In other words, studying politics, studying the affairs of the state, is studying about us
G.W.F Hegel
called the state the instrument of the exploitation of the proletariat and predicted that it would wither away
Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels
Believe that individuals and communities cam exist without any authority and ruling over them
Anarchists
