POL 2107 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Structural Level, Teleology, Eudaimonia
17 Oct 2016
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Midterm: choose 2: the principles of athenian democracy espoused by pericles in the funeral oration stand in sharp contrast to plato"s notion to the good city. Discuss: justice is the art which gives to each man what is good for his soul. Discuss: plato"s solution to the problem of politics is to take politics out of social life. Discuss: in their search for the best possible type of political organization, the early greeks were trying to deal with a problem of social decline. 384-322 bc, people of plato"s, tudor to alexander the great (travelled extensively). From northern greece, ionian, concerned with the basic question proposed by plato. Not interested to the ideal but the practical. Characterized by a certain common sense, refused to believe that the world was anything but fully real. The purpose of philosophy was to explain the natural world.
