Bonus Episode (Philosophy). Aristotle - Politics - A Christian Response (Apologetic)

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Aristotle – Politics.

What makes a good society? How should it be governed and who should be allowed to live in it? These issues are what the Greek philosopher Aristotle called Politics. His writing now 2 1/2 thousand year old have cast a long shadow in political philosophy.

In this work, Aristotle asked what made a society good using terms like ‘oligarchies’, ‘democracies’ and ‘monarchies’ that we still use today. In this highly influential work, Aristotle tried to establish a way of preserving a society through dangerous times. How should it be governed and who should be allowed to live in it? Thomas Hobbes, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Thomas Aquinas, to name but a few, have all asked the same questions over the years since. .Aristotle’s conclusions range across the role of wealth and the law, about how men, women and slaves should be treated as well as discussing education and leisure. They are far reaching, influential and, at times, deeply unpalatable to the Christian Worldview.

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I. Introduction.
II. Biography.
III. His thinking and writing.

• Natural philosophy
• Physics
• Aristotle's Five elements
• Aristotle's laws of motion.
• Four causes
• Optics
• Chance and spontaneity
• Astronomy
• Geology and natural sciences
• Biology
• Empirical research
• Psychology
• - The Soul
• - Memory
• - Dreams
• Practical philosophy
• Ethics.
• Economics
• Rhetoric and Poetry
• Politics

Aristotle’s Influence of on Christian Thinking.

• The Compatibility of Reason and Faith:
• The Cosmological Argument:
• Ethics: Virtue and Moral Formation:
• The Design Argument:
• Influence on Medieval Scholasticism:

Challenges to Aristotle thinking when compared to Christian Theology

• Epistemological Differences. (The theory of knowledge, especially with regard to its
• The Nature of God:
• Divine Providence:
• Ethics and Moral Guidance:
• Eschatology (Theology concerned with death, judgement, and the final destiny of the soul and of humankind and the afterlife)

Conclusion:

• Pluralism and Diversity:
• Ideological Differences:
• Conflicting Interests:
• Globalization and Interconnectedness:
• Ethical and Moral Disagreements:
• Evolving Social and Technological Changes:

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