POLSCI 2O06 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Oligarchy
7 Apr 2016
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Views of wives and children is wrong and states that we do not form bonds collectively (the idea won"t work) Pragmatic argument; the tragedy of the commons: constantly neglect things, care more for things that belong to us as opposed to things that are communal (cid:1) Nobody wants to be the producers and be separate from others. Nobody will like living in the ideal city set by plato. Common problem: fundamentally, plato understands politics in idealist terms too far removed from the reality of political life. Aristotle looks from the ground down how they are made to live the best life they can and as well as they can (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) Political association is a shared project in which binds us (common ideal) Typology of the different constitutional forms we are capable of having. Plato: study politics to discover the just way of life.
