Politics now a day has been perceived negatively especially here in our country. We always hear this connotation "Namumulitika lng yan!” to a politician if he is doing something good. I think we should go back to the basic meaning of politics, which is the interaction of two or more individual. For me, politics is neither positive nor wrong. It is only in the contemporary times that politics is perceived as negative.
As I have said earlier, politics is neither good nor bad. It’s up to the individual if he/she will make politics good or bad. But after reading the works or ideas of Thrasymachus, Antiphon and other philosophers about justice and applying it to politics, there is a bigger tendency that an individual will use their knowledge in politics for their own good. To oversee this potential tendencies, society as whole must come up with counter-measures or balance that will make sure that common good can be achieved.
[Unlike what’s happening here in our country today. Government has failed to give checks and balance to itself.]
As for me, Politics is a tool to reconcile differences with each other. Individuals can use this to compromise. BUT when it comes to managing one’s country, I think there must be no compromise for the welfare of the citizens must come above all.
posted by JP @ 7:16 PM
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