HIST 1001 : Western Civ Notes Exam 2 1
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Aristotle: sends his students to learn about the many poleis"s of greece. He wants his students/followers to observe and collect and learn information. They are trying to find out what the best society is. He"s looking for how people can live a good life. He has a different approach to finding out what that might be compared to plato"s. Two important impulses: what we can know; how we can know it. After the fall of athens at the end of the peloponnesian war and end of the classical age in 404. Bce, the greeks moved gradually into the first hellenistic age in the fourth century bce. Peloponnesian war had reconfirmed the fierce independence of the greek city-states and, ironically, the need for imperial unity. The struggle between independence and empire continued but further destabilized the greek poleis. In the first half of the fourth century, the city-states of.
