The Completion of the Philosophy of Human Affairs in Aristotle's ›Politics‹
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The Completion of the Philosophy of Human Affairs in Aristotle's ›Politics‹

Analyses – Interpretations

  1. 370 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

The Completion of the Philosophy of Human Affairs in Aristotle's ›Politics‹

Analyses – Interpretations

About this book

This study addresses the often-discussed relationship between the two works that comprise Aristotle's philosophy of human affairs, the Nicomachean Ethics and the Politics. Their relationship has been described often by determining "politics" as the subject of both.

By this view, for the Nicomachean Ethics a political dimension is claimed which it does not have. While in Nicomachean Ethics 1.1 a political knowledge which possesses absolute powers is introduced, it has no counterpart in the Politics and is an abomination by the general views of the Politics about the powers, that is people, that govern the polis. On the other hand, by the view that Aristotle´s practical philosophy was unified, the Politics is not recognized as a theoretical study in its own right, which is independent of anything discussed in the Nicomachean Ethics, and pursues its own objectives.

This study will focus on the central subjects of the Politics, its theoretical concepts and their relationship to one another. It will emphasize the dominant theoretical approach of this work, which develops in a systematic manner the crucial political concepts of polis, community, constitution, and addresses the political aspirations of free citizens which must be met.

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Table of contents

  1. Preface
  2. Contents
  3. Abbreviations
  4. Part I: Preliminaries
  5. Chapter 1 Introduction
  6. Chapter 2 Critical Prolegomena
  7. Part II: The Notions of Political Knowledge or Ability (politikē) in Nic. Eth. 1.1
  8. Chapter 3 The Teleological Perspective
  9. Chapter 4 The Concept of the Knowledge of politikē
  10. Chapter 5 The Human good
  11. Chapter 6 Making Citizens Good Humans (Nic. Eth. 1.10 –2.1)
  12. Chapter 7 The Household as Social Setting for Moral Education
  13. Chapter 8 The Flaws of Statesmen
  14. Chapter 9 The Transition to Pol. in Nic. Eth. 10.10
  15. Part III: Pol. 1.1 – 2
  16. Chapter 10 “Starting with First Things First”¹: Pol. 1.1.
  17. Chapter 11 Theoretical Issues in Pol. 1.1 Concerning Governing; The Method Outlined
  18. Chapter 12 Pol. 1.2. First Associations. The polis. “Human Being” (anthrōpos), and the Standard of Nature
  19. Chapter 13 The polis Exists by Nature – The Human Being Belongs to the polis by Nature
  20. Chapter 14 The Absence of Political Thinking in Nic. Eth.
  21. Bibliography
  22. Index rerum
  23. Index nominum