POLSCI 3VV3 Lecture Notes - Smart Guy, Potluck
27 Feb 2013
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Keep in mind the he spent years in the academy of plato. The way you set up aristotle is that he is the anti-plato on just about everything: he disagrees with him on almost everything. He tries to synthesize what everyone thought and figure out the best one trying to get the fullest account of. Understand what it is aiming at: telos (greek word) teleology (doing things in a certain way with an end goal in sight) all human action in teleological (end/goal/aim) To understand states you need to understand what politics aims to achieve and that is the only way to understand cities. We need to take into account that there is a range of states. It is the smallest thing that can be self-sufficient: evident that the state is the creation of nature . The state is natural: beast and god .
