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• Who is the father of politics?

  Aristotle
• Politics came from the Greek word?


  Polis
• Polis means city or state.
• Politics is about the art of government.
• Politics refers to matters revolving around the polis as political community.
• Politics is broad is not solely all about government.
• Andrew Haywood said that politics is the activity through which people make, preserve, and amend the general rules.
• Politics as public affairs state that by default, man desires to participate in public affairs.
• Politics art of the government and state revolves around the polis as political community.
• “Man by nature is a political animal.”?


  Aristotle
• Politics as compromise and consensus refers to politics as a tool to which society can resolve conflicts through negotiation, in order to achieve consensus.
• It is a strategy for maintaining consensus?

  Politics as compromise and consensus
• "Politics is the way in which socialaffairs are understood and ordered, andby which people acquire greater controlover the situation" ?

  Ponton and Gill
• What are the notions about politics?

  •Politics as art of the Government and State •Politics as Public Affairs •Politics as Compromise and Consensus •Politics as Distribution of Resources •Politics as Power
• It claims that politics is concerned aboutgovernmental structure, institutions andprocesses?

  Politics as Art of Government and State
• Having the faculty of language, man is adistinct being who may interact with oneanother and set conventions in his/her society?

  Politics as public affairs
• It focuses on the process of conciliation anddeflects the idea of resolving conflict throughcoercion?

  Politics as compromise and consensus
• Politics, according to Lasswell, is concernedwith determination, by the government ofthe following (and vise-versa)?


  • Who in political society receives what benefits, rewards, and advantages and how much of them they receive,

  • when they receive the benefits, rewards, and advantages

  • the methods by which they receive them.
• Political Scientist Harold Lasswell (1937), on hiswork, Politics--Who Gets What, When, and How,defined "politics" as involving questions as to "whogets what, when, and how."?

  Politics as distribution of resources
• Politics as power is the notion to which politics is about beingable to acquire an aspired result, whatever meansnecessary
• The political community can be divided into differentlevels, namely?


  Personal level - ei. Settling of conflict between friendsarguing where to eat dinnerCommunity level - ei. City ordinances passed toregulate illegal use of vaccination cardsevery six yearsInternational level. ei. Signing the Paris Climate Accordin the United Nations assembly

  National level - ei. Presidential elections that happens
• politics is everywhere and it may beargued that politics coincides with our"social existence" per se?


  Politics as power
• Philippine politics takes place in an organized framework of a presidential, representative, and democratic republic.
• Philippine politics revolves around the threeseparate and sovereign yet interdependent branches.
• • The Legislative branch (the law-making body, Article VI,1987 Philippine Constitution);• The Executive branch (the law-enforcing body, ArticleVII, 1987 Philippine Constitution); and• The Judicial branch (the law-interpreting body, ArticleVIII, 1987 Philippine Constitution).
• Executive branch is composed of?

  President, Vice-President, Cabinet
• Legislative Branch is composed of the Senate and House of Representatives
• The Judiciary branch is composed of?

  Supreme court, RTC and MTC, and Special courts
• Philippine politics is often described as corrupt and is always viewed negatively. Part of this political culture also includes, issues on electoral fraud, political dynasties, red-tagging, identity politics, among others.
• An issue becomes political when the government must render adecision, which must always be for the common good of the community.
• Politics is all about the way human beings are governed, whichinvolves order, power, and justice. It is not just an abstract study?


  Politics in Everyday Life
• Importance of studying politics?

  It is very important to care about politics because you should know what is going on around you. You should care about politics because you should have a say in what will happen. You should care about politics because the decisions people make will affect many lives.