aristotle Flashcards
Telos:
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
The good life:
Only possible through polis
Soul:
Knowledge leads to wisdom – wisdom leads to happiness and self realization
The golden mean:
The middle class makes up 80% of the people
Three kinds of community:
Household, Village, and polis
Aristotle’s idea of money:
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
Trade = good
Profit = bad
Aristotle’s view on slavery:
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
Autarky
Self-sufficient economic unit – no imports and no exports and specialization of labor (doesn’t exist)
Three levels of human interaction
One – close friends and family.
Two – town.
Three – political community
Who can hold a position in office?
Only two types of people – judges and citizens