Role of rebels or dissidents in the polity

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Assignment:

Response to one of the following prompts.

1. Several course readings address the role of rebels or dissidents in the polity. Drawing from at least one course reading, address the following: can we distinguish "good" rebels from "bad"? If so, how? If not, why not?

2. According to Aristotle, human beings need the polity to fulfill our potential for living a good life (a life according to ideas about right and wrong), which he contrasts with mere survival. But Aristotle also hints that not all polities are themselves good or just. Are people living in those polities doomed to living bad lives?

3. One reading of Plato's Republic is that Socrates' "healthy city" (in book two) is also his vision of a just city. What is the implicit vision of justice offered by the healthy city? Is it a useful concept of justice?

4. For Aristotle, the distinction between a good democracy and a bad one is the presence of virtue. Is the U.S. today closer to a good democracy or a bad.

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