PSCI 2301 Lecture Notes - Middleground, Aristocracy
28 Apr 2014
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Background aristotle: aristotle is a student of plato trained in medicine (practical and empirical, similar areas of investigation; different approach, centered around human beings (biology, human science, politics is the master science because it understood ethics or the good life, practical action to produce the best life for human beings, ontology beings and becoming growth, maturity, decay (cycle of time, rational and directed action, deals with things as they are in this world, plato had an ideal world and a real world (concepts vs. real, understands things as a whole, beings and become: always in motion, process of growth, decay/corruption, essence and substance; the what of a think (necessity vs. contingency, blueprint or genetic code/organization, potential to actual, substance = necessary, essence = unnecessary, substance of essence, the definition of a thing, that which is necessary, not contingent, the what of a thing, its nature.
