POLS 2000 Lecture Notes - Techne

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Political Science
• Course: POLS 2000
• Professor: Scott Brandon

Document Summary

Aristotle (born 384 bc: was somebeody that wrote in all sorts of topics, animals, the history of plants wrote on just about every topic, when he talks the those who have been well read in ancient greece, young people who have aspirations of going into political life, the view that aristotle defends is naturalism means that nature serves as the standard, the approach he takes is teleological telos meaning end/purpose everything that exists in the world is designed to fulfill its natural function, example the acorn and the oak tree, everything in nature (the acorn) is designed to fulfill its function, to become an oak tree, the acorn is designed to become an oak tree, the standard is nature, everything in nature has a purpose or end, ancients: what is also important to the greeks is phusis/ convention law (nomos, convention is just a matter of human agreement, to the greeks, they favored nature because they were not certain.