Power theory, politics

1. Power, Politics and We
Presented by
Dr. Arup Kumar Mohanty
Assistant Professor
Department of Computer Science and Information Technology
Siksha ‘O’ Anushandhan (deemed to be) University
Bhubaneswar

2. Presentation Outline
• Definition
• Key points of Power and Politics
• Wood and Iron
• Duck and Eagle
• The blind girl
• Love and Fear
• Quotes of Plato
• Quotes of Niccolo Machiavelli
• Quotes of Aristotle

3. Definition-Power
• Power: (Oxford dictionary) noun, the
ability to control people or things.
• Power:(Cambridge dictionary) noun, ability
to control people and events.
• Sir Francis Bacon was an English
philosopher and statesman who served
as Attorney General and as Lord Chancellor
of England. In 1597 he said “Knowledge is
power”.

4. Definition-Politics
• Politics:(Oxford dictionary) noun, [1]the activities
associated with the governance of a country or area,
especially the debate between parties having power.
• [2].activities aimed at improving someone's status or
increasing power within an organization.
• Politics:(Cambridge dictionary)noun, [1]the activities
of the government, members of law making or people try
to influence the way a country is governed.
• [2] the job of holding a position of power in the
government.
• [3]the relationships within a group or organization
that allow particular people to have power over others

5. Definition-Human
• Thomas Hobbes 5th April 1588 – 4th December 1679 was
an English philosopher, considered to be one of the
founders of modern political philosophy.
• Man is Selfish, fearful, driven by desire and passion
than reason/rationality, having inflated sense of his
self-worth and judgment.
• Unending desire to acquire power and more power till
his death.
• Private judgment- everyone is judge, jury and
executioner.
• Life is solitary, poor, nasty, brutish and short.
• War of “All against All”.

6. Definition-Human
• John Locke 29 August 1632 – 28 October 1704 was an
English philosopher and physician.
• Man is endowed with certain basic instinct such as
decency, goodness, social inclination, and capability
of ruling themselves by sense if reason.
• Peace, cooperation and harmony with others.
• Somewhat peace, goodwill, mutual assistance and
preservation.
• Fragile peace, inconvenience, constant danger of
confrontation.
• Private judgment- everyone is judge, jury and
executioner.

7. Definition-Human
• Jean-Jacques Rousseau (28 June 1712 – 2 July 1778)
was a Genevan philosopher, writer, and composer.
• Man is innate good nature, self-love and pity,
corrupted by modern civilization.
• Neither peace nor enmity .
• Frugal, lazy, contended, peaceful isolated living.
• Asocial, amoral and isolated living.
• Everyone was judge for himself.

8. Key points of Power and Politics
• The feeling of having no power over people and
events is generally unbearable to us- when we feel
helpless we feel miserable. No one wants less
power, everyone wants more.
• It is dangerous to seem too power hungry. We have
to seem fair and decent.
• Learning the game of power requires a certain way
of looking at the world, a shifting of
perspective.
• Power’s crucial foundation is the ability to
master your emotion.
• Anger, affection and love are most destructive
emotion in politics.
• Hunt or be hunted.

9. Key points of Power and Politics
• Politics of power is, for many, the most complex
understanding of politics because power itself is
intangible — we cannot touch or see it — we can
only feel its effects.
• Some define politics quite simply as the exercise
of power.
• Power: how much free to fulfil the desire and
passion.
• Power: People around you must obey you by love or
by fear.
• Politics is a game. Game of power. All are playing
consciously or unconsciously.
• If you know the politics, your family life, social
life and professional life will become beautiful.
Everyone loves you.

10. Wood and Iron
• Wood is not as strong as Iron.
• Don’t try to change anyone.
• You need to place them in
their own place.

11. Duck and Eagle

12. There was a blind girl who hated herself
Just because she was blind. She hated
Everyone except her boy friend who loved
Her with all his heart and always there
For her.
She said that if she could only see the world, she
would marry her boy friend.
One day, someone donated a pair of eyes for her and
then she could see everything including her boy friend.
He took her hand and said “Now that you can see the
world, will you marry me?”.
The girl was shocked when she saw her boy friend was
blind too and refused to marry her. Her boy friend
walked away in tears.
The Blind Girl

13. Love and Fear
• Wife was tortured by her soulmate(husband).
• Soulmate-(Cambridge dictionary)-someone, usually
your romantic or sexual partner, who you have
a special relationship with, and who
you know and love very much.
• Husband-the man that you are married to.
• Marriage- a legally accepted relationship between
two people in which they live together, or the
official ceremony that results in this.
• She don’t love him, but kiss him, hug him and
sleep with him.
• Men are driven by two principal impulses, either
by love or by fear.- Niccolo Machiavelli

14. Quotes of Plato
• No one is more hated than he who
speaks the truth.
• Love is a serious mental disease.
• The measure of a man is what he does
with power.
• The wise man will want to be ever
with him who is better than himself.
• Courage is a kind of salvation.

15. Quotes of Niccolo Machiavelli
• Politics have no relation to moral.
• It is much safer for the prince to be feared than
loved, but he ought to avoid making himself hated.
• There is no avoiding war, it can only be postponed to
the advantage of others.
• Any man who tries to be good all the time is bound to
come to ruin among the great number who are not good.
• Don’t try to change others.
• So far as he is able a prince should stick to the path
of good but, if the necessity arises, he should know
how to follow evil.
• Men are always wicked at bottom unless they are made
good by some compulsion.
• Power is the pivot on which everything hinges. He who
has the power is always right; the weaker is always
wrong.

16. Quotes of Aristotle
• Man is by nature a political animal.
• We cannot learn without pain.
• The aim of the wise is not to secure pleasure, but
to avoid pain.
• Fear is pain arising from the anticipation of
evil.
• At his best, man is the noblest of all animals;
separated from law and justice he is the worst.
• Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life,
the whole aim and end of human existence.

17. References
• The Republic by Plato
• The Prince by Niccolo Machiavelli

18. I was born of the ice and snow
With the winter wolves, in the dark alone
The wildest night, I became the one
And you'll know you're mine when the silence comes.
Heavy is the crown, only for the weak.
A knife in my heart couldn't slow me down
'Cause power is power, my fire never goes out
I rise from my scars, nothing hurts me now
'Cause power is power
Now watch me burn it down.
It was released on April 18, 2019, from the Game of
Thrones

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