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	Aristotle -- Politics [Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy]
		Aristotle adds that young men will usually act on the basis of their emotions, rather than according to reason, and since acting on practical knowledge requires the use of reason, young men are unequipped to study politics for this reason too.
		Aristotle begins his exploration of these regimes with the question of the degree to which the citizens in a regime should be partners.
		Aristotle has already told us that if the regime is going to endure it must educate all the citizens in such a way that they support the kind of regime that it is and the principles that legitimate it.
	www.iep.utm.edu /a/aris-pol.htm (18373 words)

	Aristotle (384-322 BCE): General Introduction [Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy]
		Aristotle defines the imagination as "the movement which results upon an actual sensation." In other words, it is the process by which an impression of the senses is pictured and retained before the mind, and is accordingly the basis of memory.
		Aristotle notes that there is a purely rational part of the soul, the calculative, which is responsible for the human ability to contemplate, reason logically, and formulate scientific principles.
		As an analogy, Aristotle comments that, either "excess or deficiency of gymnastic exercise is fatal to strength." Third, he argues that desire-regulating virtues are character traits, and are not to be understood as either emotions or mental faculties.
	www.utm.edu /research/iep/a/aristotl.htm (7037 words)

	Aristotle And Politics
		Aristotle was born in Stagira in northern Greece, and his father was a court physician to the king of Macedon.
		Aristotle lays the foundations for his political theory in Politics by arguing that the city-state and political rule are "natural." The argument begins with a historical account of the development of the city-state out of simpler communities.
		Aristotle backs up four claims about the city-state: First, the city-state exists by nature, because it comes to be out of the more primitive natural associations and it serves as their end, because only it attains self-sufficiency (1252b30-1253a1).
	www.studyworld.com /basementpapers/sec_papers/Aristotle_And_Politics.html (1498 words)

	Aristotle's Political Theory (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)
		Politics is a practical science, since it is concerned with the noble action or happiness of the citizens (although it resembles a productive science in that it seeks to create, preserve, and reform political systems.) Aristotle thus understands politics as a normative or prescriptive discipline rather than as a purely empirical or descriptive inquiry.
		Aristotle states that "the politician and lawgiver is wholly occupied with the city-state, and the constitution is a certain way of organizing those who inhabit the city-state" (III.1.1274b36-8).
		Aristotle thinks that this form of rule is justified in the case of natural slaves who (he asserts without evidence) lack a deliberative faculty and thus need a natural master to direct them (I.13.1260a12; slavery is defended at length in Politics I.4-8).
	plato.stanford.edu /entries/aristotle-politics (3100 words)

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		Aristotle is often thought of as a logician, but he regularly uses the adverb logikôs, logically, as a term of reproach contrasted with phusikôs, naturally or appropriately, to describe arguments made by others, or preliminary and inadequate arguments of his own.
		Aristotle adds that young men will usually act on the basis of their emotions, rather than according to reason, and since acting on practical knowledge requires the use of reason, young men are unequipped to study politics for this reason too.
		Aristotle shows an interest in technique, especially in the design of political institutions, but he does not forget that politics is instrumental to the good life.
	www.lycos.com /info/aristotle.html (647 words)

	Aristotle, The Politics (1885) - Vol. 1: The Online Library of Liberty
		Aristotle is thought to have been the first who based knowledge on experience, but ever and anon the ideal or poetical image which was always latent in Greek philosophy, though clothed in an unpoetical dress, and reduced to a skeleton, returns upon him.
		Aristotle regards Phaleas and Hippodamus as he regards Plato, from the point of view of an adversary: he is their critic, after the manner of his age, and tells us, not what he approves, but what he disapproves in their writings.
		Aristotle wavers between these two points of view which he almost brings to an agreement; for the law must be executed by judges; and the one wise ruler will have other wise men to assist him in his judicial labours.
	oll.libertyfund.org /Texts/Aristotle0039/Politics/0033-01_Bk.html (19849 words)

	GradeSaver: ClassicNote: About Aristotle's Politics
		Aristotle's Politics is one of the most influential and enduring texts of political philosophy in all of history.
		Aristotle posits the existence of natural slaves, "those who are as different [from other men] as the soul from the body or man from the beast,.
		Whether one agrees with Aristotle's political philosophy or not, a knowledge of its underlying principles is essential for a clear understanding of nature of all future political philosophy.
	www.gradesaver.com /classicnotes/titles/politics/about.html (1891 words)

	Aristotle's Political Theory > Presuppositions of Aristotle's Politics (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)
		Aristotle's political philosophy is distinguished by its underlying philosophical doctrines.
		However, Aristotle recognizes that it is generally impossible to fully realize this ideal, in which case he invokes a fall-back principle: it is best to attain perfection, but, failing that, a thing is better in proportion as it is nearer to the end (see DC II.12.292b17-19).
		Aristotle's perfectionism was opposed to the subjective relativism of Protagoras, according to which good and evil is defined by whatever human beings happened to desire.
	plato.stanford.edu /entries/aristotle-politics/supplement2.html (937 words)

	MR 22 - Justice - Thad Williamson's Study Guide to Aristotle's Politics
		Aristotle counts the role of the state in fostering morality as the primary way that the state “confers great benefits.” Divorced from law and morality, he reasons, man is worst of all creatures, but in through the state is capable of being the best of all creatures.
		Aristotle’s point is not that these claims of rich and poor are wrong, but that they are partial claims and cannot be mistaken for the principle of correct distribution of political power itself.
		Aristotle repeatedly states that the purpose of the state and of political life is to promote the good life, which is understood to involve virtue and character development.
	www.people.fas.harvard.edu /~mponeill/justice/williamsonaristotle.html (2485 words)

	SparkNotes: Aristotle: Politics
		Aristotle identifies citizenship with the holding of public office and administration of justice and claims that the identity of a city rests in its constitution.
		Aristotle acknowledges that giving full sovereignty to either the governing body or the laws might make room for abuses of power and suggests that a polity is probably least susceptible to corruption, especially when the laws are given higher authority than the governing body.
		Aristotle calls humans “political animals” because we cannot be fully human without active participation in a city-state, and his recommendations regarding justice and education bear in mind only what will make for the strongest state.
	www.sparknotes.com /philosophy/aristotle/section10.rhtml (1691 words)

	Aristotle, The Politics
		Aristotle in some of his writings reports and criticises theories and arguments he ascribes to Plato that are not found in Plato's dialogues, and it is assumed that these were things Aristotle heard Plato say while he was a member of the Academy.
		Aristotle's answer seems to be that slaves can have only the virtues belonging to the part of the soul that is influenced by reasoning, while women can also have the intellectual virtues, but in a subordinate way.
		Aristotle's main concern is to analyse the structure and workings of various kinds of states, with particular attention to the causes of stability and revolution.
	www.humanities.mq.edu.au /Ockham/y6704.html (7091 words)

	Aristotle
		Although the surviving works of Aristotle probably represent only a fragment of the whole, they include his investigations of an amazing range of subjects, from logic, philosophy, and ethics to physics, biology, psychology, politics, and rhetoric.
		Aristotle appears to have thought through his views as he wrote, returning to significant issues at different stages of his own development.
		There he considered the natural desire to achieve happiness, described the operation of human volition and moral deliberation, developed a theory of each virtue as the mean between vicious extremes, discussed the value of three kinds of friendship, and defended his conception of an ideal life of intellectual pursuit.
	www.philosophypages.com /ph/aris.htm (779 words)

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	Amazon.com: The Politics (Penguin Classics): Books: Aristotle,Trevor J. Saunders,T. A. Sinclair (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Aristotle was an important thinker, born in 384 BCE at Stagirus (a Greek colony), who is considered by many the founder of the realist tradition in Philosophy.
		Aristotle the rube was evidently too busy observing, cataloging, teaching - living, to write it all down in an organized coherent whole while Plato the aristocrat was at first desperate to capture all he could remember then to expand upon the works of his revered master, Socrates, trying desperately to walk in his sandals.
		Aristotle's views on a number of topics (women and slavery come quickly to mind) stand out so opposed to our beliefs today that it's almost worth reading this book just to get some perspective on how new some of the social ideas we take for granted really are.
	www.amazon.com /Politics-Penguin-Classics-Aristotle/dp/0140444211 (2563 words)

	Politics \| Addicted to the nuclear option
		Aristotle believed being surrounded by water was a good defence in itself, but he wrote before the invention of nuclear weapons.
		Now, even if the cabinet and public went along with the wishes of Gordon Brown (and presumably Tony Blair), it would still be important to debate the form, size, timing and expense of a renewed 'deterrent' - possibly in a European context - while being mindful of our non-proliferation treaty commitments.
		Everyone from Aristotle to Adam Smith and Sir Michael Quinlan thinks expenditure on defence is the foundation of economic policy; and it was Smith, all those years ago, who urged Britain to adapt to 'the mediocrity' of her circumstances.
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	Aristotle: Politics
		That treatise is Aristotle's Politics, a comprehensive examination of the origins and structure of the state.
		Like Plato, Aristotle supposed that the need for a division of labor is the initial occasion of the formation of a society, whose structure will be modelled upon that of the family.
		Aristotle, unlike his teacher, supposed that the extravagant representation of powerful emotions is beneficial to the individual citizen, providing an opportunity for the cathartic release of unhealthy feelings rather than encouraging their development.
	www.philosophypages.com /hy/2t.htm (715 words)

	Ancient History Sourcebook: Aristotle: The Polis, from Politics
		But, if all communities aim at some good, the state or political community, which is the highest of all, and which embraces all the rest, aims at good in a greater degree than any other, and at the highest good.
		Some people think that the qualifications of a statesman, king, householder, and master are the same, and that they differ, not in kind, but only in the number of their subjects.
		The distinction which is made between the king and the statesman is as follows: When the government is personal, the ruler is a king; when, according to the rules of the political science, the citizens rule and are ruled in turn, then he is called a statesman.
	www.fordham.edu /halsall/ancient/Aristotle-politics-polis.html (2135 words)

	Politics by Aristotle
		But, if all communities aim at some good, the state or political community, which is the highest of all, and which embraces all the rest, aims at good in a greater degree than any other, and at the highest good.
		The distinction which is made between the king and the statesman is as follows: When the government is personal, the ruler is a king; when, according to the rules of the political science, the citizens rule and are ruled in turn, then he is called a statesman.
		As in other departments of science, so in politics, the compound should always be resolved into the simple elements or least parts of the whole.
	www.4literature.net /Aristotle/Politics (822 words)

	Philosophy- Squashed Aristotle - The Politics - Condensed and Abridged
		We classify politics as the seat of government is in one person, in few, or in the masses.
		As to which is superior, the few or the many, there is force in the view that the many collectively strike a sounder average judgement than the few; and their collective interests are the more extensive.
		THE study of political science demands examination of the polity ideally best; of the best practicable for a particular state; of the best practicable for the generality of states; and of the best attainable under certain hypothetical conditions.
	www.btinternet.com /~glynhughes/squashed/aristotlepolitics.htm (3647 words)

	Aristotle on politics (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		For some are of opinion that the rule of a master is a science, and that the management of a household, and the mastership of slaves, and the political and royal rule, as I was saying at the outset, are all the same.
		At this stage begins the duty of the manager of a household, who has to order the things which nature supplies; he may be compared to the weaver who has not to make but to use wool, and to know, too, what sort of wool is good and serviceable or bad and unserviceable.
		As in other sciences, so in politics, it is impossible that all things should be precisely set down in writing; for enactments must be universal, but actions are concerned with particulars.
	www.gutenberg.com /eBooks/Alex_Collection/aristotle-politics-89.htm (20745 words)

	Harvard University Press: Politics by Aristotle
		Aristotle, great Greek philosopher, researcher, reasoner, and writer, born at Stagirus in 384 BC, was the son of Nicomachus, a physician, and Phaestis.
		Nearly all the works Aristotle prepared for publication are lost; the priceless ones extant are lecture-materials, notes, and memoranda (some are spurious).
		VII Fragments of various works such as dialogues on philosophy and literature; and of treatises on rhetoric, politics and metaphysics.
	www.hup.harvard.edu /catalog/L264.html (426 words)

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