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The Politics of Aristotle

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The Politics of Aristotle is the second part of a treatise of which the Ethics is the first. It looks back to the Ethics as the Ethics looks forward to the Politics, as Aristotle did not separate the spheres of the statesman and the moralist. In the Ethics he has described the character necessary for the good life, but that life is for him essentially to be lived in society, and when in the last chapters of the Ethics he comes to the practical application of his inquiries, that finds expression not in moral exhortations addressed to the individual but in a description of the legislative opportunities of the statesman. The state is "a community of well-being in families and aggregations of families for the sake of a perfect and self-sufficing life" and the legislator is a craftsman whose material is society and whose aim is the good life.


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Publisher: Duke Classics

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  • Release date: February 20, 2012

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  • ISBN: 9781620113752
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  • ISBN: 9781620113752
  • File size: 363 KB
  • Release date: February 20, 2012

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The Politics of Aristotle is the second part of a treatise of which the Ethics is the first. It looks back to the Ethics as the Ethics looks forward to the Politics, as Aristotle did not separate the spheres of the statesman and the moralist. In the Ethics he has described the character necessary for the good life, but that life is for him essentially to be lived in society, and when in the last chapters of the Ethics he comes to the practical application of his inquiries, that finds expression not in moral exhortations addressed to the individual but in a description of the legislative opportunities of the statesman. The state is "a community of well-being in families and aggregations of families for the sake of a perfect and self-sufficing life" and the legislator is a craftsman whose material is society and whose aim is the good life.


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    Publisher:
    Duke Classics

    Kindle Book
    Release date: February 20, 2012

    OverDrive Read
    ISBN: 9781620113752
    Release date: February 20, 2012

    EPUB ebook
    ISBN: 9781620113752
    File size: 366 KB
    Release date: February 20, 2012

    Open EPUB ebook
    ISBN: 9781620113752
    File size: 363 KB
    Release date: February 20, 2012

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  • Formats
    Kindle Book
    OverDrive Read
    EPUB ebook
    Open EPUB ebook
  • Languages
    English