Haudenosaunee Good Mind and Aristotelian Eudaimonia Meet in Albany
4:18 PM Thursday.
I am running a bit behind schedule, so I won't take too much time on this entry, but I do want to leave a record of my inquiry on this point.
1. Was George Holland Sabine a professor at Cornell in Ithaca?
2. Is "A History of Political Theory" a seminal text in the field of political theory?
3. Is Ithaca located on the ancestral homelands of the Haudenosaunee?
4. Do students of political theory at Cornell today study the Great Law of Peace alongside Western political theories?
5. Say more about the Aristotelian definition of eudaimonia and the Haudenosaunee conception of Good Mind as these relate to political theory - are they comparable ideas?
6. Does reason play an important part in both Aristotelian and Haudenosaunee political theory?
7. How did Haudenosaunee political theory influence the Albany Plan and the American Founding Fathers?
8. What had happened to the Mohican at the time of the Albany Plan in 1754 - were they still in the Albany area, and if so, how did they relate to the American colonists and the Haudenosaunee?
9. When Benjamin Franklin referred to the Haudenosaunee as "ignorant savages," was he likely being ironic for his colonial audience, or is it more likely that he genuinely saw the Native Americans this way?
10. What about the reference by Thomas Jefferson to the savage in the Declaration of Independence - was the "noble savage" the idea current at the time, or did Jefferson likely have a pejorative meaning in mind?
11. Was Benjamin Franklin's later essay [Remarks Concerning the Savages of North America] in part an explicit rejoinder to this kind of attitude?
12. Was Aristotle an indigenous Athenian?
It seems there is much work to be done, on many levels, to grasp the true nature of Turtle Island political theory.
End 5:23 PM.
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