POG 235 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Aristoi, Oligarchy
4 Apr 2016
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Plato"s justice - believes that justice is a nature to us, what our roles are, what we are good at doing, natural ability. He also decides that the good society has to be divided up in three classes (brass, silver and gold). Plato"s notions of property, philosopher king"s do not have property. You produce equally and are divided the property within the masses. There is a hierarchy but no private property. Plato"s concept of truth shows that there is some sort of ideal form. Allegory to the cave goal is to break through the chains, find the truth and convince others. Aristotle says political institutions develop because people at some point want to come together to help ensure the necessities of life. The polis is structure which is not bound by geography, the state is not just the central place of the polis, but can have the structure of the constitution.
