aristotle Flashcards

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Telos:

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The principal end of everything happens when it’s growth is complete… if it is able to develop fully from it’s inner nature

Telos is the point in your life when everything comes together

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The good life:

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Only possible through polis

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Soul:

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Knowledge leads to wisdom – wisdom leads to happiness and self realization

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The golden mean:

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The middle class makes up 80% of the people

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Three kinds of community:

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Household, Village, and polis

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Aristotle’s idea of money:

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Injustice occurs when a profit is made and when money is compounded with interest on profit, things become unjust. A barter system used to prevent corruption/profit

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Trade = good

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Profit = bad

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Aristotle’s view on slavery:

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There are natural slaves that are born that way and it lacks reasons

there are conventional slaves which come from war and they’re forced into slavery

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Autarky

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Self-sufficient economic unit – no imports and no exports and specialization of labor (doesn’t exist)

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Three levels of human interaction

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One – close friends and family.
Two – town.
Three – political community

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Who can hold a position in office?

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Only two types of people – judges and citizens

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