Politics of Aristotle

Name: Politics of Aristotle
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ISBN: 9780807846377

ISBN-10: 0807846376

ISBN-13: 9780807846377

Edition: 1997

Authors: Peter L. Phillips Simpson, Peter L. Phillips Simpson, Peter L. Phillips Simpson, Peter L. Phillips Simpson

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A touchstone in Western debates about society and government, the Politics is Aristotle's classic work on the nature of political community. Here, he argues that people band together into political communities to secure a good and self-sufficient life. He discusses the merits and defects of various regimes or ways of organizing political communitydemocracy in particularand in the process examines such subjects as slavery, economics, the family, citizenship, justice, and revolution. Peter Simpson offers a new translation of Aristotle's text from the ancient Greek. He renders the Politics into an English version that is accurate, readable, and in certain difficult passages, original. His…

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List price: $42.50
Copyright year: 1997
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Publication date: 3/3/1997
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 320
Size: 6.12" wide x 9.25" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.276
Language: English



Analytical Outline of the Politics


Introduction to the Politics: Nicomachean Ethics 10.9



The Primacy of the City







































Regimes Said by Others to Be Best



The Regime of Plato's Republic

































Definition and Division of Regime






















































The Best Regime
















































Education in the Best Regime


















Division and Description of the Other Regimes
















































Destruction and Preservation of the Other Regimes




































Addendum on Setting Up the Other Regimes




















Index