01:790:101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Tyrant, Home Town Hero, Northern Greece
5 Oct 2018
School
Department
Course
Professor
Document Summary
How things work in the world as opposed to having large debates. Characteristic of aristotle wrote/ studied the world. Defines man as a political animal" and taxonomizing the world. Writings cover many subjects: zoology, rhetoric, politics. 158 different ones from the world first to do a systematic study between all the constitution and first to create an archive. Rumored to be put on trial similar to socrates. Leaves athens because he didn"t want athens to stand against philosophy twice. Wasn"t willing to be put to death so aristotle left. Socrates- people of the polis are ignorant. People need to be put into their place". Plato- political life is a dark cave. Leave to educate self and then go back to cave to educate the others. Aristotle- political life is a place of virtue and excellence. Key to human excellence a deep respect and lays in it within his book (complete opposite of plato and socrates)
