OP&U Aristotle

What is the “science” of the good of man? What does Aristotle say by way of caution?

Chief goal of human existence

Happiness (eudaimonia)

What does he dismiss?

Pleasure, honor, and wealth as only providing means to the end of happiness, and focuses his gaze upon happiness itself

Virtue

Human excellence = the mean between the extremes of excess and defect; not just the average, moderate, or in-between; the ideal point between the two extremes

Man is what kind of animal?

A political one

Natural progression

Individuals → man & woman → master & servant → family → village → city-state

Slavery

Women

Women

Three basic household relationships

Aristotle critiques of Plato

Role of the individual

Property

Six pure forms of government

Ideal from of government

Middle class

Revolutions

Changes in constitution