Politics: A Treatise on Government
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The Politics of Aristotle is the second part of a treatise of which the Ethics is the first part. It looks back to the Ethics as the Ethics looks forward to the Politics. For Aristotle did not separate, as we are inclined to do, the spheres of the statesman and the moralist. In the Ethics he has described the character necessary for the good life, but that life is for him essentially to be lived in society, and when …
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- AuthorAristotle
- SourceProject Gutenberg #6762
- Length101,944 words · 6h 48m of reading
- Chapters57
- DictionaryIncluded
- CopyrightPublic domain in the United States
- Source checked2026-08-28
Contents
57 chapters
Recovered from the original source text, so you can open the book at any of them.
- 01By Aristotle
- 02INTRODUCTION
- 03BIBLIOGRAPHY
- 04CHAPTER XVIII
- 05CHAPTER I
- 06CHAPTER II
- 07CHAPTER III
- 08CHAPTER IV
- 09CHAPTER V
- 10CHAPTER VI
- 11CHAPTER VII
- 12CHAPTER VIII
- 13CHAPTER IX
- 14CHAPTER X
- 15CHAPTER XI
- 16CHAPTER XII
- 17CHAPTER XIII
- 18CHAPTER XIV
- 19CHAPTER XV
- 20CHAPTER XVI
- 21CHAPTER I
- 22CHAPTER II
- 23CHAPTER III
- 24CHAPTER IV
- 25CHAPTER V
- 26CHAPTER VI
- 27CHAPTER VII
- 28CHAPTER VIII
- 29CHAPTER IX
- 30CHAPTER X
- 31CHAPTER XI
- 32CHAPTER XII
- 33CHAPTER I
- 34CHAPTER II
- 35CHAPTER III
- 36CHAPTER IV
- 37CHAPTER V
- 38CHAPTER VI
- 39CHAPTER VII
- 40CHAPTER VIII
- 41CHAPTER IX
- 42CHAPTER X
- 43CHAPTER XI
- 44CHAPTER XII
- 45CHAPTER XIII
- 46CHAPTER XIV
- 47CHAPTER XV
- 48CHAPTER XVI
- 49CHAPTER XVII
- 50CHAPTER I
- 51CHAPTER II
- 52CHAPTER III
- 53CHAPTER IV
- 54CHAPTER V
- 55CHAPTER VI
- 56CHAPTER VII
- 57INDEX
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