POLSCI 2O06 Study Guide - Final Guide: Free Republic
23 Apr 2015
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Consists of a bunch of characteristics which are associated with different classes. Justice entails that rational rules over spirited/appetite part. Common interest in order to get to equality. Private property is compatible with political virtue whereas plato thought ruling class cant have private property because it would create a difference. Right kind of virtue is essential for holding a state together. Machiavelli"s writings: how a leader rules a free republic. Look virtuous, but don"t actually have to be virtuous. Politics is a mixture of luck and virtue. Remove moral foundation of virtue, more scientific account of virtue. Break down what emotion is, what different skills associated to virtue (look at the individual components of virtue are) When aristotle and plato talked about virtue- demoralized- virtue is attached to things they want and don"t want. Liberty is a freedom to do what you want to do. Freedom of not to be stopped from doing something.
