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  • PREFACE

  • Edited by W. L. Newman
  • Book:
    Politics of Aristotle
    Published online:
    07 September 2011
    Print publication:
    10 June 2010, pp v-x
    First published in:
    1887

  • Summary

    The first of the two volumes which I now publish is an introductory volume designed to throw light on the political teaching of Aristotle. I have sought to view his political teaching in connexion not only with the central principles of his philosophical system, but also with the results of earlier speculation. I have endeavoured to discover how it came to be what it is, and especially to trace its relation to the political teaching of Plato, and to ask how far the paths followed by the two inquirers lay together, how far and at what points they diverged. It is only thus that we can learn how much came to Aristotle by inheritance and how much is in a more especial sense his own. If the investigation of these questions has often carried me beyond the limits of the Politics, I have sought in recapitulating and illustrating Aristotle's political teaching to follow as far as possible in the track of its inquiries. It will be seen, however, that I have dealt in my First Volume with some books of the Politics at far greater length than with others. Thus, while I have analysed with some fulness the contents of the Third, Fourth, and Fifth Books (in the order which I have adopted) and have also had much to say with regard to the inquiries of the First, I have dwelt but little on the Second Book and have given only a short summary of the contents of the Sixth, Seventh, and Eighth.

  • NOTES TO BOOK II

  • Edited by W. L. Newman
  • Book:
    Politics of Aristotle
    Published online:
    07 September 2011
    Print publication:
    10 June 2010, pp 226-384
    First published in:
    1887

  • Summary

    27. Ἐπεὶ δὲ κ.τ.λ. The First Book ends. καὶ πρῶτον ἐπισκεψώμεθα περὶ τῶν ἀποφηναμένων περὶ τῆς πολιτείας τῆς ἀρίστης. The Second begins by premising that Aristotle's aim is to inquire what form of political union is best for those most favourably circumstanced–a fact which had not been stated before—and then proceeds to argue that this involves a preliminary review of ‘other constitutions than that to be propounded by Aristotle’ (τὰς ἄλλαρ πολιτείας), whether actual working constitutions (termed κύριαι in 2. 12. 1274 b 27) held to be well-ordered, or schemes in good repute put forward by individual inquirers. The two passages are evidently not in strict sequence. The opening paragraph of the Second Book is not perhaps absolutely inconsistent with the closing words of the First, inasmuch as all that is said at the close of the latter book is that those who have put forward views with regard to the best constitution will be first dealt with, but it appears to ignore them. In c. 12. 1273 b 27 sqq. the plan of the book is still further extended to include a notice of οἱ ἀποφηνάμενοί τι περὶ πολιτείας generally, and even of who were the authors of laws only and not of constitutions.

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