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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.
Politics By Aristotle Written 350 B.C.E Translated by Benjamin Jowett. Politics has been divided into the following sections: Book One [70k] Book Two [105k] Book Three [103k] Book Four [99k] Book Five [114k] Book Six [51k] Book Seven [100k] Book Eight [46k] Download: A 484k text-only version is available for download.
Balot, Ryan, “The ‘Mixed Regime’ In Aristotle’s Politics,” in Thornton Lockwood and Thanassis Samaras (eds.), Aristotle’s Politics: A Critical Guide, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2015, pp. 103–22.
Anyone who has translated Aristotle (or any other Greek writer, for that matter) will know that, though easy to state, they are enormously diffi cult to achieve.
The aim of the Politics, Aristotle says, is to investigate, on the basis of the constitutions collected, what makes for good government and what makes for bad government and to identify the factors favourable or unfavourable to the preservation of a constitution.
This is because Aristotle believed that ethics and politics were closely linked, and that in fact the ethical and virtuous life is only available to someone who participates in politics, while moral education is the main purpose of the political community.
Aristotle in 23 Volumes, Vol. 21, translated by H. Rackham. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1944. The Annenberg CPB/Project provided support for entering this text.
As in other departments of science, so in politics, the compound should always be resolved into the simple elements or least parts of the whole. We must therefore look at the elements of which the state is composed, in order that we may see in what the different kinds of rule differ from one another, and whether any scientific result can be ...
Aristotle's Politics did not have an immediate impact because it defended the Greek city-state, which was already becoming obsolete in his own lifetime. (As mentioned above, the Greek city-states permanently lost their independence due to the conquest by the kings of Macedon.)
Regarding the constitution that is ideal or “according to prayer,” Aristotle criticizes the views of his predecessors in Politics and then offers a rather sketchy blueprint of his own in Politics VII and VIII.