Political self

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from the Greek work Politika

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Politics

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etymologically defined as ‘affairs of the cities.

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Politika

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It is the decision-making process that applies to all group members.

The ability to govern and control a group of people in a community, state, or nation

It can be inferred from this news that a person’s ability to influence others by deciding for them is one of the essential qualities in one’s political self.

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Politics

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is social, and almost all philosophers adhere to this absolute truth.

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Human nature

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both agreed with this political nature of man, that the state is a natural institution founded like a man (Bernardo’s 2016). A person does not just desire to relate to others but wants to form a society of which he is a part.

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St. Thomas and Aristotle

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serves as a person’s sanctuary for the fulfillment of his political needs. Without this, a person is denied of his yearning for unity, a yearning that motivates him for social relationship with others.

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society

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In entering into a social group for the satisfaction of his needs, a person in a sense shows a ?? of his life.

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political character

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is a necessary consequence of his social existence.

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Political life

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So that a person can secure a place in his society, he must experience ??, and this can only be done in a ??.

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peace and order

political atmosphere

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According to him, political life must adhere to the idea that “the ruler and the ruled” should be able to uphold the common good. In politics, the ruler is the ?, and the ruled are the ? or the ?.

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St. Thomas Aquinas

government

people or citizens

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From a functional perspective, ?? serve some basic survival needs, such as the need for internal order and the defense of external enemies. Thus, some group members are granted the power to define and enforce the norms. All adults can join in on this task in the simplest of gathering bands.

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political systems

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However, the more complex the society, the greater the ???????? among kinship groups or other social units. At some point, loyalty to society must supersede family and local allegiance.

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need to coordinate many specialists’ activities and settle disputes

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A ?? becomes the focus of such loyalty, with the power to enforce rules.

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governing group

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they create and reinforce loyalty to this larger entity and its leader.

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Ritual and other unifying symbols

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Where ceremonies and sacred objects fail to generate solidarity, they collectively disintegrate into ?? , While the ruling cities are especially eager to use rituals to legitimize their rule, opposition groups also need unifying symbols.

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hostile factions.

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were small and needed no extensive political system. They operated more like an extended family, with decisions being made as they became necessary. As surpluses developed and societies grew, cities evolved-perhaps about ???(Fischer 1976).

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Early societies

3500 BC

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came into being, with power radiating outward from a city like a spider’s web.

they often quarreled, and wars were common. The victorious ones extended their ??, and eventually, a ?? was able to wield power over an entire region.

As these regions grew, the people slowly developed an identity with the larger region. They began to see distant inhabitants as “we” instead of “they”. What we call the state – the political entity that claims a monopoly on violence within a territory came into being.

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City-states

rule

single city-state

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The political organization of a complex society is called the ?.

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nation-state

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?? are organized sets of institutions that govern and defend a given territory. Today, however, historical evidence suggests a more complicated picture in which it operates as a relatively autonomous (self-directing) institutional sphere with its own history and logic.

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States

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