POL200Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Intellectual Virtue, Mobile Suit Gundam, Nationstates
28 Apr 2014
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Logos: speech = communication: distinguishing between what is useful and not useful, making distinctions between the just and unjust. Justice is about determining what is good for the whole. In political relationship, people are equal, their is no hierarchy political community helps meet our needs in the most basic way the threshold some state is superior to none. 11253a: those most capable of virtue must provide possibilities for political discussion. It is characterised by dialogue, friendship and some idea of a common project. Argument of the lecture: aristotle has something very specific in mind when he suggests in. Book 1 of the politics that man is by nature a political animal. He means that man is best suited to live in the type of smaller political communities hat were found in ancient greece. There are various reasons why these types of communities are best for human flourishing and why other alternatives (including contemporary nation-states) are less optimal.
