POLSCI 2O06 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Direct Democracy, Oligarchy, Aristocracy
23 Nov 2017
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Plato"s (cid:373)ythi(cid:272)al (cid:272)ity is the city that is the embodiment of the just soul and the just society. Ideal of justice is for everybody, regardless of time and place. One right way to live, everything else is a different degree of wrong. Aristotle shares some ideas with plato, but diverges in some sense. Aristotle is more nuanced, more subtle: not one kind of society, different societies pursue different ends. Still argues that political life has an end/ a goal, but what makes a political association good or bad lies within the society itself: can fulfill potential through different means. Plato says end of politics is to live justly, this view of justice is always the same no matter what society individuals are living in. Aristotle says the end of politics is to live well: we enter politics to live the best life that our particular society allows us to live.
