POL S 201 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Aristocracy, Nicomachean Ethics
23 Oct 2018
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To be a political animal is to discover and realizing the common benefit. By realizing the common good, we can understand our own good. Politics at its core is virtue politics. A life of ethical improvement, the enactment of goodness and justice. To discover goodness and justice we must be in a community. The aim is it good and justice actions. Political communities come together to discover virtue and the final outcome is to perform virtue, act nobly and justice together. And a city state is the communities of families and villages in a complete and self sufficient life, which we can say is living happily and nobly. So political communities must be taken to exist for the sake of noble actions and not for the sake of living together (pg. The glory of athens will be in the glory of its virtue.
