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Politics (Πολιτικά, Politiká) is a work of political philosophy by Aristotle, a 4th-century BC Greek philosopher. At the end of the Nicomachean Ethics , Aristotle declared that the inquiry into ethics leads into a discussion of politics.
The Livre de Politiques (commonly shortened to Politiques) is an extensively annotated Middle-French translation of Aristotle's Politics by 14th-century scientist and philosopher Nicole Oresme. It is the first extant translation of the Politics into a modern vernacular language. [1]
Aristotle mentioned the collection of Constitutions in the Nicomachean Ethics (10.1181B17). It was supposed to be material gathered for his work on Politics.However, after the Athenian politeia was discovered, historians noted a later dating of the monographs (in the 320s BC) compared to the Politics (after 336 BC, most likely before 331 BC).
This list compiles some of the most famous quotes by Aristotle and a few lesser-known ones, but equally as profound. ... Good Morning America. Siblings team up to surprise dad with 1 last carpool ...
In its classical meaning, a republic was any stable well-governed political community. Both Plato and Aristotle identified three forms of government: democracy, aristocracy, and monarchy. First Plato and Aristotle, and then Polybius and Cicero, held that the ideal republic is a mixture of these three forms of government. The writers of the ...
In Book III of his Politics (1279a), Aristotle seems to indicate that, in principle, politeia refers generically to any form of government or constitution, although he uses the word also to call a particular form of government: "When the citizens at large govern for the public good, it is called by the name common to all governments (politeion ...
aristocracy: government by the best (Plato's ideal form of government) Plato found flaws with all existing forms of government and thus concluded that aristocracy, which emphasizes virtue and wisdom, is the purest form of government. Aristotle largely embraced Plato's ideas and in his Politics three types (excluding timocracy) are discussed in ...
2. Political Thought Before Plato 3. Plato, The Republic 4. Plato, The Statesman and The Laws 5. Aristotle, Political Ideals 6. Aristotle, Political Actualities 7. The Twilight of the City-State Part II : The Theory of the Universal Community 8. The Law of the Nature 9. Cicero and the Roman Lawyers 10. Seneca and the Fathers of the Church 11 ...