Politics

by Aristotle

Publishers:

William Heinemann; Harvard University Press

, 1932

Overview

This volume contains H. Rackham’s translation of all eight books of Aristotle’s Politics.

Contents

Top Highlights

“All three classes of household subjects have their virtues, the slaves’ imparted by the master’s admonition, the women’s and children’s by education directed in the interest of the state.” (Page xvii)

“It is clear then from these considerations that the goodness of a good citizen and that of a good man are not the same in general; but will the goodness of a good citizen of a particular sort be the same as that of a good man?” (Page 189)

“art of household management, or a different sort of science, is open to debate.” (Page 33)

Product Details

• Title: Politics
• Author: Aristotle
• Series: The Loeb Classical Library: English
• Publishers: William Heinemann, Harvard University Press
• Print Publication Date: 1932
• Logos Release Date: 2018
• Language: English
• Resources: 1
• Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
• Subject: Political science › Early works to 1800
• Resource ID: LLS:PLTCS
• Resource Type: text.monograph.ancient-manuscript.translation
• Metadata Last Updated: 2024-03-25T20:38:08Z

About Aristotle

Aristotle (384–322 BC) was born in the Greek colony of Stagirus, on the coast of Thrace. When he was 17, Aristotle went to Athens, where he studied under Plato at the Academy for 20 years. Following the death of Plato, and due to Aristotle’s divergence from platonic ideas, Aristotle left the Academy. He was later hired by Philip of Macedonia as a tutor for his son, Alexander (who would grow up to become Alexander the Great). After tutoring Alexander for five years, Aristotle returned to Athens and founded the Lyceum as a rival to Plato’s Academy. Because he was in the practice of walking while he taught, his followers became known as peripatetics, a Greek word meaning “to walk about.”

Known as the father of logic, Aristotle was the first philosopher to develop a system of reasoning. He was also the first to classify human knowledge into specific disciplines (e.g. mathematics, biology, etc.). He is most famous known for rejecting the platonic theory of forms, setting up a dichotomy that has dominated philosophy to this day.