POL200Y5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Aristocracy, Tyrant, Liberal Democracy
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Given the human attributes like intellect and mono-virtues redistributed evenly amongst human, certain people will fall below the threshold that will qualify them as reasonable and human. And they will be deemed as slaves since they cannot rule themselves. The only constitution that survives in good shape is the constitution of athens. We read it despite the inadequate work since it is the most important work of political science. Practical science: thing we learn by practising and studying lives of people who lived in virtue. Aristotle project- what is a good life and how it can be actualized in a political community. Humans are the only animals that have speech and they have logic and rationality and reason. Other animals have no right sense of what is correct or wrong. And this speech is what makes being a community possible. Relects the customs of the society in which aristotle lived in.
