POLC70H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Air1, Grosgrain, Summum Bonum

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Peripatetic; (from gr. periapsis-walking around) because they walked around when they taught. 3. tutor to the young alexander the great. 4. the first political scientist-but not just a political thinker. 1. enormous influence on political theory-ancient, medieval, modern. 4. study of the different parts of the state. Aristotle"s style of writing is very different-not dialogues. What we have are essentially lecture notes in outline form: plato likes grand theorizing; aristotle favors particular details of each specific case he studies, aristotle is deeply concerned with proper method of analysis-causation. Part 2: politics as a subset of ethics. Ethics is generally described as the philosopher of human nature-concerning human values and moral conduct. In aristotles system, politis is a part of theirs. So, to understand politics, he suggests eel must must first get a better understanding of what humans value and why we value them. This is the aium of aristotles major work on the topicof ethics, the nicomachean ethics (sons nameo policis cannot be sperated.

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