POLI 2P91 Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Polymath, Class Conflict
21 Nov 2015
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Aristotle born in stagira (macedonia) so not an athenian father was court physician to. Phillip of macedon (father of alexander the great) Studies with plato but founds his own school, the lyceum. Flees athens in the wake of anti-macedonia sentiment in order that athens not sin twice against philosophy . Lives in exile for rest of his life. Wrote treaties on almost everything: ethics, politics, metaphysics, physics, animal biology, meteorology, astronomy, logic, rhetoric, poetry even complied hundreds of polis-constitutions. Wrote many dialogues, but none of them survived. Very influenced by his father"s medical training (hippocratic medicine) as well as his empirical research in biology. Considered today as the theorist of athenian democracy both communitarians and. Deliberative democrats look back to him as source. Communitarians are conservative side of political spectrum. Why people should be interested in good of community and not own self-interest. Deliberative democrats are liberal and more to the left side of the political spectrum.
