Aristotle's PoliticsThis is a translation of Aristotle's text, attempting to provide the reader with an understanding of Aristotle's argument. An introductory essay situates Politics in Aristotle's overall thought, while further information provides the historical background, offers analytical assistance with particular passages, and gives a guide to Aristotle's philosophy and its related scholarship. |
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according actions activity animals arise aristocracy Aristotle Aristotle's art of finance artisans Assembly association authority become best form better Carthage cause citizens Cleisthenes common communal meals concerned contrary Crete definition democracy demokratia despotic deviation Diodorus Siculus Dionysius the Younger discussion elected equal ernment evident example exist farmers form of government freemen function Greek term happens happiness Hippodamus honor household management judge justice kind of government king kingship lawgiver laws leisure living manner matters means ment military multitude necessities needy Nicomachean Ethics noble ochlocracy oligarchy Overseers partake participate Peisistratus people's rule Perhaps Plato political political virtue popular governments possess principle problem property qualification prosperous reason rulers ruling body sake sense share slave by nature Socrates soul Spartan species of people's subjects superior things thought Thrasybulus tion translation tyranny tyrant unjust unjustly virtuous vote wealthy whereas zens