AuthorAristotle
TitlePolitics & poetics / translated by Bemjamin Jowett and S.H. Butcher ; with an introduction by Horace M. Kallen ; and portraits by Leonard Baskin
Imprint Norwalk, Connecticut : The Easton Press, 1979
Descript xxi, 331 p. : ill. ; 26 cm

CONTENT

Legend, the personality, and the sage -- Definition and structure of the state. Household economy. The slave. Property. Children and wives -- Ideal commonwealths-Plato, Phaleas, Hippodamus. The best existent states-Sparta, Crete, and Carthage-Greek lawgivers -- Citizen, civic virtue, and the civic body. The classification pf constitutions; Democracy and oligarchy; Kingship. The forms of manarchy -- Variations of the main types of constitutions -. Of the best state both in general and under special circumstances. How to proceed in framing a constitution -- Of revolutions, and their causes in general. Revolutions in particular States, and how revolutions may be avoided -- Concerning the proper organization of democracies & oligachies -- Summum Bonum for individuals and states. A picture of the ideal state. The educational system of the ideal state, its aim, and early stages -- Ideal education continued. Its music and gymnastic


SUBJECT

  1. Political science
  2. Poetics

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Central Library (4th Floor)888 A717P 1979 CHECK SHELVES