POL200Y1 Lecture : notes
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Today"s lecture: aristotle is our contemporary, aristotle"s ethics + politics, polis + household, what is a polis, nature politics, aristotle on slavery. It is no longer aristotelian science or teleology. But his understanding of human kind: aristotle understood human beings to have a specific telos. Human beings could live well, in his view, only if their political cultures helped them to develop the moral virtues (justice, courage, generosity, friendship). He gave an account of the good life based upon an understanding for developing human capacities. The liberation - where citizens discuss what is good for their city. This is to render good justice in courts of law: aristotle has become popular again due to the dissatisfaction with contemporary liberal theory. Modern political analysts have observed the disengagement of citizens in the worlds most powerful democracies. The level of ignorance among democratic citizens is on the rise. www. notesolution. com. 2 o e. g. america voted in george bush twice.