Aristotle seems
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Starting to look more like what we think as a political
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Scientist. He gathered constitutions,
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158 of them all, from all over the Old
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World. He was the first to give some
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Kind of ideological rigidity on the vocabulary of political life.
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Above all, Aristotle's works, like politics
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Nicomachean Ethics, specifically designed
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Teaching political work, political education.
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They apparently planned to raise as philosophers
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Potential philosophers than to shape and educate the citizens
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Future politicians. Theoretical works seem less
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In the sense of building abstract models of political
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More life, giving advice, in the sense of the sun
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A civil arbitrator's opinion and public disputes.
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Unlike Socrates, who became famous in figure
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Republic's seventh book, compared the political life
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Cave, and unlike an apology which Socrates
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Number of his fellow citizens that their lives,
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That was investigated, is not worth living,
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Aristotle takes seriously the dignity of the city showed
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How the philosophy might be useful to citizens
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Statesmen.
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However, for all that, you could say that there are still
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Deep mystery surrounding Aristotle's political works.
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Simply put, you can simply ask
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What were the politics of Aristotle's Politics?
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What were the political views of Aristotle himself?
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The best place to start is, of course, with views
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As stated in the opening pages of the Politics
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His reasoning here, however brief,
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Worth following. Let me just quote him.
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"This man," he says "is much more political animal than any
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Type of bee or absence of life is clear. "
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Why is that clear? "We provide that," he says,
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"Nature does nothing in vain, and man alone among animals
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Have spoken.
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In other species, "he says," can be cool,
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May sound and be able to distinguish between pleasure and pain,
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Speech "- his word is logos.
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A man has a logo - a reason or speech.
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The word can also be interpreted .-- "is more than just ability
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To distinguish between pleasure and pain. "He continues.
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"But the logo," he writes, "is used to reveal the
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Benefit and harm. Therefore, "he writes,
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"Only the right. For this strange man
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Compared with other animals that he alone has a perception of
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Good or bad, right is right and
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Things. "In other words,
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He seems to say that he talk or reason,
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Logo, that is capable of
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Differentiate and create a certain moral categories,
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Certain categories of moral important that we live by -
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Advantage, pests,
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Just and unjust, and things like that
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Are, as he says, a family and polis.
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He says polis is by nature.
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It's natural. The city is natural, because it
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Enables people to achieve perfect what he calls their
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telos. That is their end,
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Their goal. We are political animals,
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He says that participation in city life
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Necessary to achieve human excellence,
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For our well-being.
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A man without a city, he says, who is
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apolis - No City - should also be an animal or
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Al. Ie,
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Below or above humanity. Our political character of our
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A necessary feature. That only by participating
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Political life we have accomplished, we can purchase the excellences
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Or degrees, as he says, it makes us what
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We, for our telos or fill out our full
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Completeness.
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Aristotle believed in our social and political nature is not
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The result of calculation, as we shall see Hobbs,
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Locke, and other social contract theories,
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But things like love, affection, friendship,
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And sympathy are the grounds of political life rooted
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Our icons. This allows speech
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Sharing these features that make us fully human.
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But to say, of course, that man is inherently political
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Is not only to say that we become fully human by
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Participating with others in the city.
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That means more than that.
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Form of association that leads to our perfection
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Note the opening pages of the book, Aristotle did not
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Says nothing about what kind of city or regime is the best.
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All he tells us is that we live by the Police
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Nature, that to achieve our ends, will be necessary
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Polis life. But what type of Police?
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How it should be subject? By one, few,
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Many, or some combination of these three category?
27:43 I think that the regime
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Nature, that is the best regime,
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Will be what we may think of him as the aristocracy of
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Educated aristocracy of the education and training,
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Some aristocratic republic in which educated
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Elite for the benefit of all states.
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Aristotle's Republic, and I use this term to remind
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Plato's and you are dedicated to fostering
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High level of citizen virtue where it says these features
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Mind and heart necessary for self-government.
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These features, he believes,
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They maintain the unity of the minority who can
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Sharing in the administration of justice at
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City.
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It's probably a very elite teaching.
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Would you agree? Attracts us,
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Maybe that's why, contrary to our intuitions very
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And the way we were taught.
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Yes? You agree with me.
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But before we dismiss Aristotle's account
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inegalitarian unbearable elitist,
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Difficult question we must ask not only of Aristotle,
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But more important than our own.
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What else Yale, but the Elite Institution
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Designed to educate, morally and intellectually,
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Potential members of the leadership class?
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Think about it. Can anyone get mail?
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Do we have an open admissions policy for all who want to com
Here? Hardly.
Does not require those qualities of self-control,
Discipline, restraint is essential to success
Here? I'll leave aside,
For a moment, what will happen on Friday
Saturday
Is it a coincidence that this alumni
Unlike a few others that find themselves
High positions of government, business,
Law, and academia? Is that fair or unreasonable
Describe it in class, like Aristotle, perhaps,
As a natural aristocracy? I leave you with this question
Think. Before we reject Aristotle  |
