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... BY THE KINDNESS OF HIS HEART , AND THE FORCE OF HIS CHARACTER , HAS GIVEN A NEW LIFE TO EDUCATION IN THE CITY OF LONDON , THIS WORK IS AFFECTIONATELY INSCRIBED . PREFACE . THE translation of the Politics which is now TO THE ...
... BY THE KINDNESS OF HIS HEART , AND THE FORCE OF HIS CHARACTER , HAS GIVEN A NEW LIFE TO EDUCATION IN THE CITY OF LONDON , THIS WORK IS AFFECTIONATELY INSCRIBED . PREFACE . THE translation of the Politics which is now TO THE ...
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Aristotle, Benjamin Jowett. PREFACE . THE translation of the Politics which is now given to the public was commenced about fifteen years since , with the intention of illustrating the Laws of Plato . A rough draft was made by the ...
Aristotle, Benjamin Jowett. PREFACE . THE translation of the Politics which is now given to the public was commenced about fifteen years since , with the intention of illustrating the Laws of Plato . A rough draft was made by the ...
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... given an extraordinary stimulus to the art of interpretation and criticism . Had there been more of them we should have seen them in truer proportions . We should not have spent so much time in deciphering them , and possibly they might ...
... given an extraordinary stimulus to the art of interpretation and criticism . Had there been more of them we should have seen them in truer proportions . We should not have spent so much time in deciphering them , and possibly they might ...
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... given the faculty of speech , that he may discourse with his fellows of the expedient and the just ; and these are the ideas which lie at the basis of the state . In the order of time , the state is later than the family or the ...
... given the faculty of speech , that he may discourse with his fellows of the expedient and the just ; and these are the ideas which lie at the basis of the state . In the order of time , the state is later than the family or the ...
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... given many sorts of plants and animals for the use of man ; and the differences , both in men and animals , are dependent on their food . Hence arise many em- ployments which may be pursued either to a limited or to an unlimited extent ...
... given many sorts of plants and animals for the use of man ; and the differences , both in men and animals , are dependent on their food . Hence arise many em- ployments which may be pursued either to a limited or to an unlimited extent ...
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Page lxxiii - For as we have many members In one body, and all members have not the same office: So we, being many, are one body in Christ and every one members one of another.
Page 5 - 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 86 - For the many, of whom each individual is but an ordinary person, when they meet together may very likely be better than the few good, if regarded not individually but collectively, just as a feast to which many contribute is better than a dinner provided out of a single purse.
Page 9 - It is clear, then, that some men are by nature free, and others slaves, and that for these latter slavery is both expedient and right.
Page 215 - Clearly then the best limit of the population of a state is the largest number which suffices for the purposes of life, and can be taken in at a single view.
Page 244 - ... looks after his own children separately, and gives them separate instruction of the sort which he thinks best; the training in things which are of common interest should be the same for all.
Page 3 - 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 4 - Hence it is evident that the state is a creation of nature, and that man is by nature a political animal. And he who by nature and not by mere accident is without a state, is either above humanity, or below it; he is the Tribeless, lawless, hearthless one...
Page 7 - 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 8 - Again, the male is by nature superior, and the female inferior; and the one rules, and the other is ruled; this principle, of necessity, extends to all mankind.