POLI 347 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Personal Rule, Techne
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Aristotle: citizenship, polity and the rule of law. For plato, there is only one kind of knowledge, and it is available to the few. Aristotle distinguishes theoretical knowledge, practical wisdom (ethics and business prudence) and techne (knowledge in application knowledge for slaves technical knowledge). Practical wisdom is related to ethics and politics and is available to the many. (b) plato on the forms and his cave analogy. Aristotle takes the empirical world seriously; biology and teleology (the acorn and the oak tree) Aristotle: knowledge isn"t an exclusive kind of thing you cant say one thing is knowledge and another isn"t not just the form. Teleology: there is a telos (purpose) (c) unity versus plurality, plato strove for oneness, aristotle accepted plurality (but not scepticism or relativism) Plato was a unitist: that everything fits together under one structure that there is a way of ranking things .
