POG 235 Lecture 2: POG235 Aristotle

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Politics and Public Administration
• Course: POG 235
• Professor: Colin Mooers

Document Summary

The soul has natural two elements, a ruling and ruled, and each has its different goodness, one belonging to the rational and ruling element and the other to the irrational and ruled. It is a general law that there should be naturally ruling elements and elements naturally ruled. Nomos is about that people do not have a prewritten telos, humans create their own destiny. More moderate than plato: sees need to compromise with democracy. But, need to set strict limbs on democratic rule. The best form of state will not make the mechanic a citizen. Where mechanics are admitted to citizenship citizen excellence cannot be attained by every citizen, but can only be achieved by those who are free from menial duties. Need sufficient leisure and property to cultivate moral virtue". In that case, we may attribute sovereignty to will of the majority of persons who are the owners of a majority of property .