LS101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Bottle Service, Nicomachean Ethics, Theology
18 Oct 2016
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Theologist - wanted to bring society closer to god. Common themes; money, material items, cars, power, fame, leisure, bottle service, self centred. Living well and common good (different values) Assumptions about human nature - people fundamentally want good for each other. Plato - ideal or utopian state (abstract theories of sovereignty), philosopher kings. Aristotle - reality of state politics (a more practical approach) Founder of logic (sylligism - if this, then that. structured way of thinking about society) How people should live, organizing society, huge affect on people after him. Virtuous law and law makers = virtuous society. Aristotle was not as interested in god - more focused on the reality and state. Search for common view of the good = search for the highest good. Not about learning abstract rules, theoretic principles (such as those in religion) Habits and practices in our day to day lives, action, exercise and practise.
