Rugged Individual Aristotle

Man is a political animal aristotle observes.

Rugged individual aristotle.

In stagira a small town on the northern coast of greece that was once a seaport. A college student i had befriended hamid offered to take my cash and negotiate with the dealer for me while i drank coffee in a nearby qahwa because as he said the price of the furniture would triple if the merchant glimpsed an american within. Yet the frontier myth is the myth of rugged individualism not the myth of the clan. That kind of clannishness is far more common in frontier history than the mythic lone gunman or the man alone against the wilderness.

Aristotle was born to an aristocratic family in stageira on the chalcidice peninsula of macedonia a region of northern greece in 384 b c. The 1928 election is not known for its rousing speeches. Rugged individualism frontier culture in america was first presented as an important historical event at a meeting of the world congress of historians held in chicago in the summer of 1893. His father nicomachus was the personal physician to king amyntas of macedon and aristotle was trained and educated as a member of the aristocracy.

Like his work in zoology aristotle s political studies combine observation and theory. Permaculture is a relatively new term purportedly coined less than 50 years ago. And his republican counterpart herbert hoover gave an impassioned speech now known as the rugged individualism speech as it was one of the major communication events of the 1928 election we will take a close look at this speech. I lived in morocco a few decades ago and needed some furniture for our apartment.

But in reality the democratic contender al smith was a powerful speaker. Human beings are creatures of flesh and blood rubbing shoulders with each other in cities and communities. Lay that to the myth makers of the ideology of liberalism which exalts the autonomy of the individual in the free market. Turning from the ethics treatises to their sequel the politics the reader is brought down to earth.

I do not know if ayn rand is the greatest philosopher of all time she certainly didn t think so and gave that title to aristotle. Early life family and education. Aristotle was born circa 384 b c. Aristotle s mother phaestis came from chalcis on the island of euboea and her family owned property there.

Aristotle aristotle political theory. What is rugged individualism.