Final Blog

I think political philosophy helps us as citizens know how our government thinks and how it was made.  Political philosophy has shaped the structure of our entire government for example the way Thomas Jefferson used the ideas/philosophy to write the Declaration of Independence, by Jefferson using Locke's philosophy he was able to help distinguish how he wanted us to be independent from Britain and to establish ourselves in the world. I think it is fairly important to study political philosophy because it just makes you understand how to relate to certain philosophical ideas, but I find it to be not as important in some cases because political philosophy is always changing just like people so i sometimes question the legitimacy of some philosophy since most of the time citizens will only listen to their family family values, and they're ideas of being a pre-determined republican or democrat. When really citizens base they're own philosophy on what the media shows.