Politics (World Philosophers and Their Works)
At a glance:
- Author: Aristotle
- First Published: 1598
- Genres: Nonfiction, Philosophy
Context
Aristotle’s Politics combines description with judgments about the ideal political community. Its eight separate books make up a work that, most scholars insist, was never intended to be one finished product. There is debate about the ordering of the existing books. However, in spite of the work’s variety, several dominant themes and interests prevail throughout. One theme is the characteristic Aristotelian stress on the purposive quality of political life—the view that a state, like any other entity in nature, has a nature understandable in terms of a...
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