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Politics: Books VII and VIII

Aristotle author Richard Kraut editor

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Oxford University Press

Published:27th Nov '97

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The Clarendon Aristotle Series is designed for both students and professionals. It provides accurate translations of selected Aristotelian texts, accompanied by incisive commentaries which focus on philosophical problems and issues. This volume contains a clear and accurate translation of the last two books of Aristotle's Politics, together with a philosophical commentary. It is well suited to the requirements of students, including those who do not know Greek. The Politics is a key document in Western political thought; it raises and discusses many theoretical and practical political issues which are still debated today. In Books VII and VIII Aristotle gives his fullest picture of the ideal civic community, as a model for actual political systems. In such a community citizens share equally in political deliberation by drawing on a common conception of the good, and all are educated by the city to participate in its culture. Aristotle's discussion ranges over such issues as commerce, property, marriage, abortion, censorship, education, and the place of music and poetry in civic life.

Richard Kraut's new translation of and commentary on Politics: Books VII and VIII, which provides Aristotle's account of the ideal city, is an extremely distinguished contribution to our understanding of the Politics * The Philosophical Review *
Kraut's translation is clear, accurate, and readily intelligible to the Greekless reader: indeed, it satisfies these desiderata perhaps better than any other available English translation * The Philosophical Review *

ISBN: 9780198751137

Dimensions: 224mm x 145mm x 18mm

Weight: 429g

240 pages