POL200Y1 Lecture 5: Aristotles-The-Politics
7 Feb 2017
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Aristotle says that the city exists by nature if the communities that make it up. If we assume the (cid:494)if(cid:495) the city must not be necessary for us to live well but it. Aristotle makes the assumption that human beings are political beings and must be sufficient for us to live well its sufficient for the good life is because we are political beings not trans- political beings. Aristotle suggests that humans only need the polis and therefore religion is not necessary since the polis offers all we need. The difference between speech and voice is precisely what we would call reason. The argument he makes is that the bees are capable of expressing but human beings have reason discussion decision must be authoritative for its member. It seems inevitable that people disagree on the good. We need one another because we can learn what is could for us only by.
