POLISCI 359 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Polis, Politeia
9 Feb 2016
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About 850 poleis in ancient greece; each of these had about 300- 60,000 male citizens; athens was 30,000, sparta was about 8,000: women, slaves and resident aliens were not included in this count. Plato wrote book politeia , or how a polis is run. Indianapolis, minneapolis, etc: indianapolis = city of indiana , singapore = city of singa or lion (from root pur , istanbul = of the city (from the root bul ) A citizen is one who rules and is ruled in turn. Telos: meant something like purpose, goal, or final end. Most important of these human capacities is logos. Logos: means both reason and logic; but it also means. Human beings alone have the ability to speak, to reason: greeks called people who ignored this philosophy an idiotes (a private person, someone not interested in the public good) Rejects the telos of what it means to be human.
