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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... persons . In like manner there is a variety in the offices held by them . Hence it is evident that a city Excessive is not by nature one in that sense which some persons ruin the unity would affirm ; and that what is said to be the ...
... persons . In like manner there is a variety in the offices held by them . Hence it is evident that a city Excessive is not by nature one in that sense which some persons ruin the unity would affirm ; and that what is said to be the ...
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... persons as well as to things , and a just distribution , as I have already said in the Ethics " , of absolute embraces alike persons and things , they acknowledge justice . the equality of the things , but dispute about the merit of the ...
... persons as well as to things , and a just distribution , as I have already said in the Ethics " , of absolute embraces alike persons and things , they acknowledge justice . the equality of the things , but dispute about the merit of the ...
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... persons , and no government can stand which is not founded upon justice . For [ if the government be unjust ] every one 4 in the country unites with the governed in the desire to have a revolution , and it is an impossibility that the ...
... persons , and no government can stand which is not founded upon justice . For [ if the government be unjust ] every one 4 in the country unites with the governed in the desire to have a revolution , and it is an impossibility that the ...
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