The Politics of Aristotle, Volume 1Clarendon Press, 1885 - 320 pages The translator's death prevented the publication of a third volume which was to contain essays on subjects of a more general character. |
From inside the book
Results 1-5 of 59
Page x
... preserved to us only in fragments . If we go back in thought from that date to the time when they were first written down by the hand of Aristotle , or at which they passed from being a tradition of the school into a roll or book , we ...
... preserved to us only in fragments . If we go back in thought from that date to the time when they were first written down by the hand of Aristotle , or at which they passed from being a tradition of the school into a roll or book , we ...
Page xii
... preserved and not been preserved ; that is to say , it does not exist in any definite form or system . To us , therefore , Plato and Aristotle are the begin- nings of philosophy . In reading them the reflection is often forced upon us ...
... preserved and not been preserved ; that is to say , it does not exist in any definite form or system . To us , therefore , Plato and Aristotle are the begin- nings of philosophy . In reading them the reflection is often forced upon us ...
Page xiv
... preserved , has 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 ...
... preserved , has 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 ...
Page xv
... preservation of the inferior class or of both classes . From these two relations there arises , in the first place , the household , intended by nature for the supply of men's daily wants ; secondly , the village , which is an aggregate ...
... preservation of the inferior class or of both classes . From these two relations there arises , in the first place , the household , intended by nature for the supply of men's daily wants ; secondly , the village , which is an aggregate ...
Page xvi
... man are better and better off than wild ones . For this rule of the superior by nature is the preservation of the subject or inferior . And the same principle applies to slaves , but there is a difference : xvi ARISTOTLE'S POLITICS .
... man are better and better off than wild ones . For this rule of the superior by nature is the preservation of the subject or inferior . And the same principle applies to slaves , but there is a difference : xvi ARISTOTLE'S POLITICS .
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
according already ancient animals appointed arise aristocracy Aristotle art of money-making artisans assembly Bekker's better body Carthage Carthaginians causes character Charondas citizens Cleisthenes common meals constitutional government cracy Cretan Crete demagogues demo democracy democratic despotic elected elements enquire Ephors Epidamnus equality evil example exercises exist form of democracy forms of government freemen Greek happiness Hellas Hippodamus honour husbandmen individual judges justice kind king Lacedaemon Lacedaemonian law-courts legislator leisure live magistracies magistrates manner master means ment mode modern monarchy nature noble notables oligarchy Orthagoras party Peisistratidae perfect Periander Perioeci Persian War persons Phaleas Phrygian mode Plato political poor preserved principle qualification question reason revolution rich royalty rule ruler sake share slaves sort soul Spartan statesman superior Syssitia things Thrasybulus Thurii tion true tyranny tyrant virtue virtuous vote wealth whereas women
Popular passages
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 4 - The proof that the state is a creation of nature and prior to the individual is that the individual, when isolated, is not self-sufficing; and therefore he is like a part in relation to the whole. But he who is unable to live in society, or who has no need because he is sufficient for himself, must be either a beast or a god : he is no part of a state.
Page 2 - 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 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 7 - ... 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 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 9 - ... for both with their bodies minister to the needs of life. Nature would like to distinguish between the bodies of freemen and slaves, making the one strong for servile labour, the other upright, and although useless for such services, useful for political life in the arts both of war and peace.
Page 128 - ... 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 xl - How small of all that human hearts endure, That part which laws or kings can cause or cure.
Page 245 - ... moral virtue. The existing practice is perplexing; no one knows on what principle we should proceed — should the useful in life, or should virtue, or should the higher knowledge be the aim of our training; all three opinions have been entertained. Again, about the means there is no agreement; for different persons, starting with different ideas about the nature of virtue, naturally disagree about the practice of it.