PHI 2183 Lecture Notes - Koinonia, Politeia, Phronesis

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Aristotle 2 politics, the good life, deliberation. Daniel kofman: competitive struggle for honour and office is a chief motor of political life and therefore of a citizen (compare to plato) Winning glory, honour, and being in on rulership standard goods that people strive for. 1278b10: a politeia (constitution) is the order of a polis, and of rulerships or magistracies, and in particular of the top or supreme office. Thus politeia is distribution of power, offices, and honours. Answer will yield right constitution just state. A. : life, and good life: plurality of goods, and both life and good life. 1280-81 oligarchy can"t be good politeia: overview of the politics, bk. Every koinonia aims at some good (begins like ne) 5. 2 autarch part of its telos bk. 5. 3 koinonia of koinoniae: man"s political nature zoon politikon bk. Phronesis is the capacity to discriminate good and bad, and deliberation in common is central to being able to be phronomos.

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