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Political thought may not necessarily come from methodic reflection. “All
political philosophy is political thought, but not all political thought is
political philososphy.”
Stateccraft question- surge of infection esp in davao - how are you going to dispose political power to
protect the lives of the citizen- will you continue to be liberal on handling peoples behavior under the A thgeory is a product of contecxxt
pandemic or stronghand of the state on regulating peoples behavior
political theor doesnt come from nowhere but a product of a particular context. It presents
Soul craft- what is the purpose of the state then if we are not to protect the life of the citizens the factoirs that these thinkers have souyght that they tring to make sense of. Political
theory raises what are yt the uses and si
We have to be cocious, soul and sate shoud be relevant- esp in political power- both should be togethr
Questions It is a statement soought of rerlative of the cobntext of th e particular thinbker that sought
We could not follow the same pattern as it isdifficult we do not have enough to cater the flood of cases
Political philosophy Political theory them that they try to evaluate oexplain has to be valid
- What is the ideal political state? - Direct questions
- What is the purpose of the state? - How do we conduct political Individual liberties It is a theorythe
- What makes a government legitimate? affairs?
- What are the proper limits of a - How do we manage the state??
government power? the right to life /public welfare, safety , health should be focus The focucus is the activities , confluc
- Is this action justified? Under what
condition is it justified? It focuys on rhe public demain'
Historical occassion
Soul-rightness of the action esp on legitimacy Theory of plato - focus on greek polis
- Concerned is to able to use poltiical power to adress the needs of the people Thomas hobbes, john locke- revolutions that happened in englans
- Reckoning the ideal Vslauutiionakl
- It give strenghts to a particular theoiry==============
qu Starts with the context, deal with practical the theory could be a tool to persuade and
convince whiich th e next thibng is acction
Hitler is concenred how soul craft is distorted
Even if hisunderstanding of the goal of the state may be corrupted Rational exploration of nature
Leaders knows they have to find the reason to preserve the power that hinders on the goal of the state
They use it
For the greek tinkers - nature could be understood
If you are really concerned with the soul craft it should be in the right v
The moment you scare of on the soul craft then you start digging the grage of your political power The intellectual man is a product of greeks discovery of reason in nature
Power corrupts. The more you have the corrupted power the mor eit gets corrupted Nature hs also its reason
There is always a limit to tyranny . It is the peoples tolerance. Peoples tolerance will be kept by the
perceived notion that the state allows them to relaliaze their potential. - it is the end of tyranny Humans believe their life is one and connected with nature. Witht that order of life demonstrated in the
form from tis various elemetnns that the people to survive, in animistic view, they hve to live in
To keep state craft accordance to the ryhthm of life
accument of statecrafts rests on soulcraft If yuo are able to live with the rythm of nature, you will be able tossurvve
ontology