POL 2107 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Summum Bonum, Koinonia, Distributive Justice
2 Feb 2018
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Polis = community = koinonia = most important thing in his political thought. Derived from koinos = anything shared or in common, partnership. Every community is established for some good not every community deserves our approval but each case the partners in the community are acting together and are pursued to some end together for a purpose for which they are approved. By describing this process as good, he suggests that communities should have morally valuealbe purposes, the true community will pursue the true good but more it involves both friendship and justice. For the greeks friendship was a wider concept than as we understand it today. Distributive justice : each parteners chare should be equal not identical but in a sense of equal to or proportionate to their contributions. What it means is that in mosyt communites members wont be the same or equal and will nedd different treatement relative to their merit and contributions.
