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Aristotles Political Philosophy in Its Historical Context - A New Translation and Commentary on Politics Books 5 and 6

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This book offers new translations of Aristotle's Politics 5 and 6, with an introduction and commentary. The focus of this volume is the text as a crucial element in the discourse of 4th century Greece, and the conflict throughout the Greek world between democracy, oligarchy, and the rise of the Macedonian monarchy.

List of contents

Preface

Abbreviations

1. Introduction

2. The Politics - themes, structure, and chronology

3. Political change and civil strife in Politics Book 5

4. Aristotle's theory of political change

5. Aristotle and democracy

6. Aristotle's preference - the politeia

7. The Politics, Macedon, and Macedonian sympathisers

8. The Politics and ethical theory

Politics Book 5, sections 1-12

Commentary on Politics Book 5

Politics Book 6, sections 1-8

Commentary on Politics Book 6

Bibliography

Index of ancient texts

Index of proper names

Index of subjects

About the author

Andrew Lintott is Emeritus Professor of Worcester College, University of Oxford, UK.

Summary

This book offers new translations of Aristotle’s Politics 5 and 6, with an introduction and commentary. The focus of this volume is the text as a crucial element in the discourse of 4th century Greece, and the conflict throughout the Greek world between democracy, oligarchy, and the rise of the Macedonian monarchy.

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