Form 8854 Regime 2023-2024

I was tall weighs been told that any serious introduction to political philosophy has to start with a big piece of Plato, right? So we've made some effort to do that, but now also we have to move on. So, we moved to Plato's son, his adopted son, in a manner of speaking, Aristotle. There's a story about the life of Aristotle, it goes something like this: Aristotle was born, he spent his life thinking, and then he died. There's obviously more to his life than that, but to some degree, this captures some of the way in which Aristotle has been perceived over the centuries. That is to say, the ultimate philosopher. Aristotle was born in the year 384, fifteen years after the trial of Socrates. He was born in the northern part of Greece in a city called styro, which is part of what is now called Macedonia. It's called that den, and when he was about your age, when he was 17 or thereabouts, maybe slightly younger than many of you, he was sent by his father to do what you are doing. He was sent by his father to go to college. He was sent to Athens to study at the academy, the first University spoke about established by Plato. But unlike most of you, Aristotle did not spend four years at the Platonic Academy. He remained attached to it for the next twenty until the death of Plato. And after the death of Plato, perhaps because of the choice of successors to the Academy, Aristotle left Athens. First to refers for Asia Minor and then to return to his home in Macedonia where he had been summoned by King Philip to establish a school for the children of the Macedonian ruling class. And it was...