Political Science 2237E Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Experience Point, Eudaimonia, Radical Change

• School: Western University
• Department: Political Science
• Course: Political Science 2237E
• Professor: Richard Vande Wetering

Document Summary

Aristotle: fundamentals of the history of his development. Early a re ideal polis: books ii, iii, vii, viii. Aristotle creates and exercises political science, disconnecting from search of ideal and forms. Disagrees with plato on how we see that good: 2. Plato connects living well to the ideal polis, as does aristotle: ethos = moral character, 3. Acting ethically will create a good polis: (cid:1008). Plato(cid:859)s pla(cid:374) (cid:396)e(cid:395)ui(cid:396)es (cid:396)adi(cid:272)al (cid:272)ha(cid:374)ge, a(cid:396)istotle(cid:859)s ideal polit(cid:455) is less of a leap a(cid:374)d less unbelievable: (cid:1009). We (cid:272)a(cid:374) still li(cid:448)e ethi(cid:272)all(cid:455) e(cid:448)e(cid:374) (cid:449)ithout a pe(cid:396)fe(cid:272)t polit(cid:455)(cid:859)s. Later a re actual polis: bks iv, v, vi. Plato: (cid:858)philosophi(cid:272)al(cid:859) (speculative, logical, ideal, seeking hidden forms) A(cid:396)istotle (cid:858) o(cid:272)ial (cid:272)ie(cid:374)tifi(cid:272)(cid:859) (practical, comparative, observation of reality, empirical) The forms exist; beyond our physical reality is a world that is more real than we see, the material world we see is unreal, confused and changing.