What
is happiness? How does Aristotle arrive at the definition? What does
happiness
have to do with politics? What are the two types of virtue? What is
virtue?
What
is the role of the following concepts in Aristotle's argument: end (telos), action, mean, choice?
How
does Aristotle construct his arguments? How does this compare to
Socrates (Republic
I)? To Plato (Republic II–X)? Why does some opinion have to be
correct
(I.8)?
What
is justice? What are the types (parts?) of justice? How
does distributive justice function? What does all of this have to do
with
ethics? What would Plato have said about Book V, had he had the
opportunity to
read it? What would Thrasymachus have said?