
Thucydides and Plato
... “Then there is a point which some find extraordinary, that they everywhere assign more to the worst persons, to the poor, and to the popular types than to the good men: in this very point they will be found manifestly preserving their democracy. For the poor, the popular, and the base, inasmuch as t ...
... “Then there is a point which some find extraordinary, that they everywhere assign more to the worst persons, to the poor, and to the popular types than to the good men: in this very point they will be found manifestly preserving their democracy. For the poor, the popular, and the base, inasmuch as t ...
Aristotle (384-322 BCE): What is Virtue?
... • Not one science of good, but many (1096a30) • Controlling science = political science – All other sciences subordinate—generalship, household mgmt, rhetoric – Why? ...
... • Not one science of good, but many (1096a30) • Controlling science = political science – All other sciences subordinate—generalship, household mgmt, rhetoric – Why? ...