Aristotle (1)
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- Aristotle
- Overview
- Aristotle rejected Plato's world of the forms. Emphasised the physical worlds
- He had a teleological concept of life. Things are defined in terms of ends or purposes
- Communities aim at some good
- Teleology
- World conforms to rational pattern
- Everything has its own distinct characteristics and potential
- World conforms to rational pattern
- Community
- Koinonia: Sharing, partnership, association
- For Aristotle, all communities aim at some good towards a shared end
- Marriage: fundamental partnership
- Farmer and slave: Natural partnership aimed at self-preservation
- Koinonia: Sharing, partnership, association
- 'The Good': Eudaimonia
- Friendship, justice and freedom = essential
- Eudaimonia = The good life.(For humans) A life for flourishing and living well
- Live a life of virtue, ethically and intellectually
- Ethical Virtues = courage,honesty, generosity
- Intellectual Virtues: Practical Wisdom
- The Telos (end) of human life is develop the potential for virtue brought about by human characteristic of reason
- The 'happy' man values philosophy and develops virtue
- The Polis
- City-state. = Aristotles' fundamental community
- Should aim at 'the good life'
- Controls all others
- Constitutions
- Kingship, Aristocracy and Republic
- 3 Perversions of this: Tyranny, Oligarchy and Democracy
- For Aristotle best political arrangement = mix of Democracy and Oligarchy (rule by wise and virtuous few)
- This is a 'Polity'
- Poor should not be excluded
- Democracy Issues
- Not everybody is equally fit to rule
- Not every court should be a 'people's court'.
- Not everybody is equally fit to rule
- Argument from 'Collective Wisdom' (In favour of Democracy
- Large group of people may be superior collectively
- Better to involve more people contributing a small amount
- However not if they are all stupid and ignorant
- End-User Argument (In favour of Democracy
- Expert is not always the best judge
- Justifies some political input from the many
- Overview
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