The Politics of Aristotle: Introduction and translationClarendon Press, 1885 The translator's death prevented the publication of a third volume which was to contain essays on subjects of a more general character. |
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... ment in naval and other warfare , do we find any attempt at organised revolt among them , nor does any mention occur of their ill - treatment by the state . It may be further noted that Aristotle , in the Seventh Book , proposes the ...
... ment in naval and other warfare , do we find any attempt at organised revolt among them , nor does any mention occur of their ill - treatment by the state . It may be further noted that Aristotle , in the Seventh Book , proposes the ...
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... ment [ olkovoμx ] or of family life . But in either case there is a difficulty in separating them . Aristotle perceives that the art of money - making is both narrower and wider than household management ; he would like to establish its ...
... ment [ olkovoμx ] or of family life . But in either case there is a difficulty in separating them . Aristotle perceives that the art of money - making is both narrower and wider than household management ; he would like to establish its ...
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... ment against usury , to which Aristotle objects , not on the ground that the usurer may become a tyrant , but because the money which is produced out of usury is a sort of unnatural birth . . . . Once more , he falls unconsciously into ...
... ment against usury , to which Aristotle objects , not on the ground that the usurer may become a tyrant , but because the money which is produced out of usury is a sort of unnatural birth . . . . Once more , he falls unconsciously into ...
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... ment of him in the Ethics and Metaphysics . The hypothesis of Oncken is highly improbable . There is no example of cor- ruption or interpolation on such a scale in a work of such excellence anywhere in the compass of ancient literature ...
... ment of him in the Ethics and Metaphysics . The hypothesis of Oncken is highly improbable . There is no example of cor- ruption or interpolation on such a scale in a work of such excellence anywhere in the compass of ancient literature ...
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... ment under which they lived . In reflections of this kind Polybius , who lived a century and a half later , though not a genius of the highest order , has made an advance upon Aristotle . His sketch of the Roman Republic is fuller and ...
... ment under which they lived . In reflections of this kind Polybius , who lived a century and a half later , though not a genius of the highest order , has made an advance upon Aristotle . His sketch of the Roman Republic is fuller and ...
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