POLC70H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Peripatetic School, Theoretical Philosophy, Practical Philosophy
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Lecture notes: aristotle (deadline for assignment 1 today) Polb70 midterm on october 21st (week 1- 6 material) outline will be posted on blackboard. Should political theory be based on the non- ideal rather than the ideal: aristotle asks these questions. Therefore becomes the great enemy of political thought (?) Represents traditional republicanism: the view that politics should be organized as a republic, which is based on public values. It should be some sort of natural law that should govern how law should be structured, etc. 1. 7: eudaimonia, then is something : why is eudaimonia important for politics, aristotle thinks eudaimonia cannot be achieved in isolation. The best constitution in a given circumstance. It explains a phenomenon in terms of its ultimate end, or telos. Here the end of all associational life is the polis. Association of assocations. ": the increasing complexity stops at the polis bc. the polis is fully self- sufficient and independent.
