POLI 2P91 Lecture Notes - Lecture 20: Jury Duty, Callicles, Negative Liberty
28 Nov 2015
School
Department
Course
Professor
Document Summary
His analysis of the causes of civic breakdown, and the preservation of order is. Aristotle thinks he understands how world works so he thinks he can. Aristotle calls the contending views on equality either numerical and merit let"s call these quantitative and qualitative. Root of conflict between oligarchies and democrats is principle of justice. Good advice, in politics or business or life. So let"s talk about the causes of disorder: profit, honour. Ex/ conflict between english and french speaking canadians. 5) disproportionate growth 6) arrogance 7) fear 8) electioneering 9) carelessness 10) gradual alteration 11) dissimilarity. Key: those in power are usually the key cause of disorder, through envy or others or superiority. When something falls apart it is usually due to these 4 things. Need to know what organizing principle is freedom. This is composed of ruling and being ruled, in turn (majority rule) and living as you like (negative liberty)
