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Politics (Aristotle)
Overview
work of political philosophy by Aristotle
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Politics he considered an inseparable part of ethics, and the state as the copy of a well-regulated individual life: from the three different activities of the soul he deduced the three main elements of the state, likening the working class to the appetitive element of the soul, both of which equally require to be kept under control; the military order, which answered, in his idea, to the emotive element, ought to…
Marcus Tullius Cicero, The Academic Questions, Treatise De Finibus, and Tusculan Disputations, of M.T. Cicero, With a Sketch of the Greek Philosophers Mentioned by
Opens on Politics; names Politics.
The Greeks thought administration should be democratic and law-making the work of experts. We think more naturally of law-making as the special right of the people and administration as necessarily confined to experts. Aristotle's Politics, then, is a handbook for the legislator, the expert who is to be called in when a state wants help. We have called him a state doctor.
Aristotle, Politics
States what Politics is; the book is titled for Politics.
As however he had said in the third book, that a state’s welfare depended on the community of ideas and of property, he now shows in detail, how the duties of men and women are common in a state, and how consequently themselves and their property too should be common,—a notion which Aristotle rather severely handles in the second book of the Politics (ch. 3), where he says, that, though the state be one, but with…
Plato, The works of Plato
The author is tied to Politics in the knowledge graph; names Politics.
Philosophers who discussed Politics (Aristotle)
- Thales of Miletus
- Aristotle
- Averroes
- Nicole Oresme
- Juan Ginés de Sepúlveda
- Pittacus of Mytilene
- Franciscus Patricius
- Women in classical Athens
- Phaenias of Eresus
Related ideas
- Polis
- Classical Athens
- Laws (dialogue)
- Interest
- Republic (Plato)
- Works of Aristotle
- Eudaimonia
- Plato
- Politics
- Political philosophy
- Platonic Academy
- Lyceum (classical)
- Aristotle
- Macedonia (ancient kingdom)
- Statesman (dialogue)
- Oxford University Press
- Constitution
- Philip II of Macedon
- Werner Jaeger
- Solon
- Nicomachean Ethics
- Nature (philosophy)
- Carthage
- Alexander the Great
Place in the tradition
Part of Ancient Greek philosophy.