POL200Y1 Lecture : notes
Document Summary
Today"s lecture: polity, kingship + absolute monarchy (pambasileia, books 7-8: preliminaries, 7 . 1-3 politics + philosophy, practical provisions military, property, and education, aristotle"s social democracy + criticisms of a"s best polis. Aristotle on justice and democracy (cont"d from last lecture: political power were distributed (according to aristotle) based on a conception of the purposes/telos of the polis o. This theory only makes sense if you consider the polis to be a corporate unit devoted to a single end: grave disputes about the purpose can of course derail this telos based conception o o. Yet a difference from us is that they still believe there is a telos. This could be the situation in corcyra: everyone agreed corcyra should have a telos but they disputed over what it should be: 2nd problem o. This is closer to glaucon"s: that it should simply exist to prevent injustice through law or make commerce possible, this is closer to our own conception as well.
