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Aristotle

Politics

Aristotle · c. 335 BCE

Translated by William Ellis. Public domain (Project Gutenberg) edition from Project Gutenberg. Ponderspace organises the text; it belongs to whoever published it.

How communities are organised, and what forms of rule serve human flourishing.

Part 8 of 8 · 176 sections in this edition

Tyrants, many of them originally enjoyed only kingly power, 168; the causes of their being conspired against, 169, 170; always love the worst of men, 175

Virtue of a citizen has reference to the state, 71; different in different governments, 71

Virtues different in different persons, 23, 24; whether the same constitute a good man and a valuable citizen, 71

War, what is gained by it in some degree a natural acquisition, 14; not a final end, 205, 229

Women, what their proper virtue, 23; not to be indulged in improper liberties, 52; had great influence at Lacedaemon, 52; of great disservice to the Lacedemonians, 52; why indulged by them, 53; their proper time of marrying, 233; how to be managed when with child, 234

Zaleucus, legislator of the Western Locrians, 64; supposed to be the scholar of Thales, 64