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Schmitt

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The concept of the political cannot be defined with reference to the state - critical of Weber. Politics in modern total states cannot be differentiated from states. 18yy states: absolutist 19yy: neutral 20yy: Totalist (integration of state and society)

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Schmitt Enemy

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The main distinction in politics is friend an foe. The enemy - usually attached negative connotations ethically, economical rival. Enemy = other and alein, unresolvable conflict therefore existential threat, tension is collective not personal.

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Schmitt War

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Point of crises. In crises everyone has to decide whether there is an existential threat or not. Every war is political, never for a purely economic or cultural war. When an economic or cultural tension reaches a level to declare war it is already political. Subjects become political due to their effect on causing people to group as enemies and friends.

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State

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Institution that decides who is an enemy and who is a friend in times of crises. It has authority to declare war on enemy. Asks people to sacrifice lives. Only a political institution, such as the state, has this authority. It has to declare war at times or crises in order to keep peace and order.

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Liberation and freedom

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In order to be free one must overcome necessities of life - the slaves take care of this. Yet for freedom one needs to enter the Agora.

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Household

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Private realm. Relation among unequal - master and slave ect. The realm of neccesity. Force is existent.

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Agora

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Public Realm, relation among equals, realm of freedom, force has no role, politics is only possible here.

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Action and Speech

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For A.G's concept of equality did not mean equality before law, it mean "all have the claim to political activity." Through Speech - rhetoric - in order to convince. Speech - Special kind of action.

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Schmitt on other thinkers

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argues that Hobbes and Machiavelli grasped the real meaning of politics Hobbes - the state of nature means the war of all against all, hence the state emerged as a result. Schmitt argues for Hobbes the sovreignity of law means the sovreignity of those who decides on the content of law. Machiavelli - power struggle lies at the heart of politics.

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Public

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One view - Public is related only with the activities of the state. Based on taxes collected to citizens. Another view, Public - State, commerce, work, art, culture ect.

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Force VS Political Power

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Political Power- people acting together - needs plurality, many. (public realm) Force: a phenomenon of the individual or few (private realm)

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Arendt Ancient Greece Inspiration

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A.g's did not think that freedom was associated with freedom of choice. According to them, freedom can be exercised only among people who are equals - not in isolation to other, it is acting together and in the Agora. Political action = freedom.

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Arendt

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What is politics is unanswered in Phil. because phil is interested in knowing the human. Politics however is about humans and the relationships between them. Politics exists because there are more than one human in the world, and we are different- Plurality. "Politics arises between men, and so outside of men" The meaning of politics is freedom. Freedom meaning a new beginning, similar to Kant's concept of 'spontaneity.' Different than freedom to chose, good or bad, but something new. Every newborn brings potential of changing the world.

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Private

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family and domestic life. But debatable- for liberals the distinction is crucial for individual freedom. For feminists the private is political.

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