POLS 320 Lecture Notes - Lecture 28: Peripatetic School, Medieval University, Episteme
6 Oct 2020
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Later hellenistic followers of aristotelian science were called peripatetics" (from gr. peripatos - walking around" because they walked around when they taught) Served as tutor to the young alexander the great. The first political scientist": he observed and wrote treatises on about 170 different political systems - only one survives (constitution of the athenians) But he is not just a theorist of politics. Aristotle"s style of writing is very different - not dialogues. What we have are essentially lecture notes in outline form, formal treatises. Some are incomplete, so we need to fill in the blanks". Plato likes grand theorizing; aristotle favors particular details of each specific case he studies. Aristotle is deeply concerned with proper method of analysis - causation, substance, classification - in all sciences, including the. What kind of science" is aristotelian political science?". The whole body of aristotle"s philosophy is often described as science.
