Opus 2024-021: Targets

Aristotle starts off by laying the groundwork for ethics.  As I said before, he felt the most important subject to focus on was political science.  Then he tries to define what he means by “political science.”  He limits it to two areas,

    “The subjects studied by political science are moral nobility and justice;...”, page 4

The translator’s notes inform us that “moral nobility” has to do with objects and actions that are materially and morally correct.  I would think that tends to merge with the second target of “justice”.

You can see that Aristotle’s idea of what is involved in political science is vastly different than what we would think today, or at least it seems that way.  Perhaps as I continue to read this will be expanded.  

Aristotle.  The Nicomachean Ethics, Translated by Harris Rackham.  England:  Wordsworth Classics of World Literature, 1996.

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