POL200Y5 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Well-Order, Political Philosophy, Distributive Justice
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Aristotle is an empiricist vs plato who was an idealist. Book 2: examination of different types of polis and what the best polis is. Book 3: constitutional issues, varieties of polis etc. Book (cid:887) and (cid:888): oligarchies and democracies didn"t have monarchies either rule. Book (cid:886): pract)cal )deals: not what we necessarily wish for but it"s the most. Aristotle"s doctrine of nature (cid:523)not in the text, assumes the reader knows. Aristotle bases argument on historical experiences (empiricist) Wants to look at what actually exists by few rich or many poor. World is made up of combination of matter and forms (similar to plato) Plato says forms are out there somewhere and matter participates in the forms, forms exist apart from the objects. For aristotle forms do not exist outside of their parts. Forms are contained in the objects themselves, looks to nature to understand: the natural world is teleological. Nature appears to work according to a plan.
