Citizens
What do citizens do that make them citizens?
What is participation in politics?
According to Aristotle, slaves are considered “living ____” and are a necessary part of the household and society at large.
What is “Living property”?
Book I.iv 1253B23 pg.64
Aristotle refers to human beings as *this* when talking about them in relation to the state.
Political animals.
What is the point of education according to Aristotle’s framework? (8.1 overall, but more specifically 8.1.13)
What is “Building up virtue in the whole of the city”?
What are the two common uses of money?
To meet the needs of the of the State and household and to acquire wealth
What is the major thing that prevents a good citizen from being that same thing as a good person?
What is a constitution?
Aristotle compares the bodies of slaves to these when discussing their use to their masters.
What are “Tame animals?”
Book I.v 1254b16 pg.68
The state exists to provide what for its citizens?
The good and virtuous life.
According to Aristotle, what fields of education should be taught? (8.2.2-6 & 8.5-7)
What is “Everything that builds virtue”?
What is the purpose of the economy in politics?
The purpose of the economy is to have the resources to provide for your needs. (Book 1.8 (page 40)
What group does Aristotle compare citizens too, all sharing one goal while performing different roles in reaching that goal?
What are Sailors?
Aristotle divides the world into two groups of people; those who were born to rule and ________”
“Those who were born to be ruled.”
Book I.v 1254a17 pg.67
What small communities come together to form the city-state according to Aristotle?
Villages and households.
Why does Aristotle argue for public education and not just education in the home? (8.1.3-4)
“For common things the training too should be made common.”
Why was money invented?
People needed something that was considered valuable in itself in order to be a medium of exchange for necessities.
What is the form of rule described by Aristotle that applies to free and politically equal citizens?
What is constitutional rule?
Men, in Aristotle’s view, are given this role in relation to the household, emphasizing their complete authority.
What is “the monarch”?
Book I.vii 1255b16 pg.74
What does Aristotle say defines a citizen?
Someone who is able to participate in the deliberative and judicial functions of the polis.
How does Aristotle view the relationship between the physical and mental education of children? (8.4)
What is “Education of the body before education of the mind, but only that which is not strenuous for a child.”
What is the danger to the art of “money getting?”
Money can become an end itself, which causes people to pursue the excess of money instead of seeking virtue.
What's the importance of the capacity to govern and to be governed?
What is performing both sides of a political life?
Aristotle believes that men, women, and slaves must all have this, but that they have it in different amounts, depending on their natural capacity.
What is “virtue?”
Book I.xiii 1259b32 pg.95
Why should the state be concerned with education?
Communal training for communal matters pertaining to the ultimate end of the city-state
Describe Aristotle’s foundational reasoning for this system of education. (7.14.20)
Since “the same things are best for men both privately and in common”, preparing people via public education should yield equal results to more people.
What does TOKOS mean?
The breeding of money