Politics (A Treatise on Government)
Aristotle · English
Aristotle's Politics, composed in the fourth century BC, carries the inquiry of his Ethics into how people can live well from the individual to the city-state.
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Aristotle's Politics, composed in the fourth century BC, carries the inquiry of his Ethics into how people can live well from the individual to the city-state. Its eight books begin with the household, slavery, and the claim that man is by nature a political animal; they then examine earlier ideal constitutions, including Plato's, define the citizen, and classify constitutions as kingship, aristocracy, and polity, with their corrupt forms tyranny, oligarchy, and democracy. Later books analyze the causes of revolution and describe the best state and its education. This is William Ellis's translation in the Everyman's Library edition first issued in 1912, with an introduction.
Politics (A Treatise on Government)
Aristotle · English
Aristotle's Politics, composed in the fourth century BC, carries the inquiry of his Ethics into how people can live well from the individual to the city-state.
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Translated From The Greek Of Aristotle By William Ellis, A.M. London & Toronto Published By J M Dent & Sons Ltd. & In New York By E. P. Dutton &. Co First Issue Of This Edition 1912 Reprinted 1919, 1923, 1928 INTRODUCTION The Politics of Aristotle is the second part of a treatise of which the Ethics is the first part. It looks back to the Ethics as the Ethics looks forward to the Politics. For Aristotle did not separate, as we are inclined to do, the spheres of the statesman and the moralist. In the Ethics he has described the character necessary for the good life, but that lif
Pagera Editor's Note
Aristotle's Politics, composed in the fourth century BC, carries the inquiry of his Ethics into how people can live well from the individual to the city-state. Its eight books begin with the household, slavery, and the claim that man is by nature a political animal; they then examine earlier ideal constitutions, including Plato's, define the citizen, and classify constitutions as kingship, aristocracy, and polity, with their corrupt forms tyranny, oligarchy, and democracy. Later books analyze the causes of revolution and describe the best state and its education. This is William Ellis's translation in the Everyman's Library edition first issued in 1912, with an introduction.
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