The Politics of Aristotle, Volume 1Clarendon, 1885 |
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... kind of inaccuracy is pretended accuracy . No pro- gress can be made in the study of Aristotle by an art of interpretation which aims only at reconciling an author with himself . Neither is there any use in seeking to reconstruct the ...
... kind of inaccuracy is pretended accuracy . No pro- gress can be made in the study of Aristotle by an art of interpretation which aims only at reconciling an author with himself . Neither is there any use in seeking to reconstruct the ...
Page xviii
... kind of war . But enough of this subject . ) - - In the opening of the Politics there are many indications of the strife of opinion and uncertainty of language which prevailed in the time of Aristotle . In the first page the writer ...
... kind of war . But enough of this subject . ) - - In the opening of the Politics there are many indications of the strife of opinion and uncertainty of language which prevailed in the time of Aristotle . In the first page the writer ...
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... kind . The lowest are the arts in which there is least ision , the greatest use of the body , and the least need of llence . But not to go further into details , he who is interested in such bjects may consult economical writers , or ...
... kind . The lowest are the arts in which there is least ision , the greatest use of the body , and the least need of llence . But not to go further into details , he who is interested in such bjects may consult economical writers , or ...
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... kind . The lowest are the arts in which there is least precision , the greatest use of the body , and the least need of excellence . But not to go further into details , he who is interested in such subjects may consult economical ...
... kind . The lowest are the arts in which there is least precision , the greatest use of the body , and the least need of excellence . But not to go further into details , he who is interested in such subjects may consult economical ...
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... kind of self - love implanted by nature , not blameable , but it should be tempered by liberality and benevolence . The Spartan freedom of taking and using a neigh- bour's goods is commended by Aristotle , and he thinks that such a ...
... kind of self - love implanted by nature , not blameable , but it should be tempered by liberality and benevolence . The Spartan freedom of taking and using a neigh- bour's goods is commended by Aristotle , and he thinks that such a ...
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Page ciii - A social instinct is implanted in all men by nature, and yet he who first founded the state was the greatest of benefactors. For man, when perfected, is the best of animals, but, when separated from law and justice, he is the worst of all...
Page c - In the first place ( 1 ) there must be a union of those who cannot exist without each other; for example, of male and female, that the race may continue; and this is a union which is formed, not of deliberate purpose, but because, in common with other animals and with plants, mankind have a natural desire to leave behind them an image of themselves.
Page ci - When several villages are united in a single complete community, large enough to be nearly or quite selfsufficing, the state comes into existence, originating in the bare needs of life, and continuing in existence for the sake of a good life.
Page cv - But is there any one thus intended by nature to be a slave, and for whom such a condition is expedient and right, or rather is not all slavery a violation of nature? There is no difficulty in answering this question, on grounds both of reason and of fact. For that some should rule, and others be ruled is a thing, not only necessary, but expedient; from the hour of their birth, some are marked out for subjection, others for rule.
Page 166 - With a like view they may be taught drawing, not to prevent their making mistakes in their own purchases, or in order that they may not be imposed upon in the buying or selling of articles, but perhaps rather because it makes them judges of the beauty of the human form. To be always seeking after the useful does not become free and exalted souls.
Page cvii - But this does not hold universally: for some slaves have the souls and others have the bodies of freemen. And doubtless if men differed from one another in the mere forms of their bodies as much as the statues of the Gods do from men, all would acknowledge that the inferior class should be slaves of the superior.
Page 57 - A fifth form of democracy, in other respects the same, is that in which, not the law, but the multitude, have the supreme power, and supersede the law by their decrees. This is a state of affairs brought about by the demagogues. For in democracies which are subject to the law the best citizens hold the first place, and there are no demagogues ; but where the laws are not supreme, there demagogues spring up. For the people becomes a monarch, and is many in one ; and the many have the power in their...
Page 72 - ... than both the other classes, or at any rate than either singly; for the addition of the middle class turns the scale, and prevents either of the extremes from being dominant. Great then is the good fortune of a State in which the citizens have a moderate and sufficient property ; for where some possess much, and the others nothing, there may arise an extreme democracy, or a pure oligarchy ; or a tyranny may grow out of either extreme...
Page xxviii - How small of all that human hearts endure, That part which laws or kings can cause or cure.
Page cii - ... the power of speech is intended to set forth the expedient and inexpedient, and therefore likewise the just and the unjust. And it is a characteristic of man that he alone has any sense of good and evil, of just and unjust, and the like, and the association of living beings who have this sense makes a family and a state.