Politics (Barnes & Noble Library of Essential Reading) - Softcover

Aristotle; Translated By Benjamin Jowett; Introduction By Joseph Carrig

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0760768935 ISBN 13: 9780760768938

Publisher: Barnes & Noble, 2014

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Paperback. Pub Date: 07 2005 Pages: 288 Publisher: Barnes & Noble Aristotle's Politics is One of the earliest and at the same time one of the most THOROUGH and Balanced accounts of politics. It provides extended Analyses of the origin and function of the state; the proper distribution of political power among the anches of government; a classification of the different types of regime; the reasons why the different regimes fail and how to prevent such failure; and. in general. the principal details of practical politics. In this respect. it is a primer on government as valuable today as it was when first written.The greatest contribution of the Politics. however. lies in its establishment of the fundamental principles underlying these details-the political significance of human nature and rationality; the relation of the human good to the political good; the critical differen...

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About the Author:

Other works by the renowned classical scholar, translator, and literary critic Francis Fergusson include "The Idea of a Theater: A Study of Ten Plays," "Sallies of the Mind: Essays," "Trope and Allegory: Themes Common to Dante and Shakespeare," and "Dante's Drama of the Mind: A Modern Reading of the "Purgatorio.
Translator and scholar S. H. Butcher served as editor for the Dover Thift Edition of the "Poetics," as well as for the "Orationes, Volume 1" by Demosthenes. Butcher is also the author of "Aristotle's Theory of Poetry and Fine Art,"

About this edition

• Publisher: Barnes & Noble
• Publication date: 2014
• ISBN 10: 0760768935
• ISBN 13: 9780760768938
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 288