ARISTOTLE

Question 1

SCHOOL

Answer 1

Lyceum

Question 2

‘POLITICS’

Answer 2

Series empirical work .:practical
Concerned with hum affairs
Most famous= Nichomachaen Ethics

Question 3

POLITICAL SCIENCE FEATURES

Answer 3

Entwined with ethics

Politics is the master science

Question 4

POLITICS IS NATURAL TO MAN OR ARTIFICIAL?

Answer 4

Natural to man

Polis is best form of state

Question 5

WHY DOES MAN NEED THE STATE?
POLITICS NATURAL OR ARTIFICIAL?
FOUNDATION FOR THESE ARGUMENTS?
HOW STATE CREATED?
WHAT IS THE STATE?
WHAT IS AN ASSOCIATION AND WHAT DOES IT LEAD TO? WHAT IS IT MARKED BY?
WHEN REACH FULL POTENTIAL?
WHY DOES THE STATE EXIST?

Answer 5

Man is good, but needs to instill virtue
Pols is nat to man
Foundation for these arguments is teleological
Created through basic forms community
Nat culmination of hum growth
Each association (fam, village, state) leads to creation state->marked by what provide for its members
Polis forms what it means to be hum->state =higher purpose=provision of good life
Reach full potential through citizenship and eudaemonia
State exists by nat, bc hum are soc, hum are nat pol animals, pols=highest form expression

Question 6

TELEOLOGY

Answer 6

Relationship form-matter->potentiality-actuality
Theory of development
All science is teleological
Ethics is a branch of pols

Question 7

VIRTUE

Answer 7

Ethics=virtue->pp practice virtue to live the good life
A moderation bet 2 extremes
Pols=collective form reasoned action based virtues