Política
- Idioma:
- anglès
- Completesa:
- Obra completa
- Autoria:
- Escrita per l'autor
- Estat del text:
- Text net
- Extensió:
- ~100.000 paraules · 487 passatges
Cita aquesta obra
- APAAristòtil. (n.d.). Política. SigPhi. https://sigphiai.com/ca/works/aristotle/politics-a-treatise-on-government
- MLAAristòtil. "Política." SigPhi, https://sigphiai.com/ca/works/aristotle/politics-a-treatise-on-government.
- ChicagoAristòtil. Política. SigPhi. https://sigphiai.com/ca/works/aristotle/politics-a-treatise-on-government.
De què tracta
L'home és un animal polític: l'estudi de la polis com a forma natural de la vida humana, les menes de constitució, per què cauen els règims i com s'educa un ciutadà.
Context i història
Com l'Ètica, que continua, són apunts de les lliçons del Liceu, cap al 330 aC — i el mètode és el mateix: l'escola d'Aristòtil havia reunit les constitucions de 158 ciutats per estudiar-les com un naturalista estudia espècies. El Llibre I conté la seva defensa de l'esclavitud «natural», que el corpus assenyala amb l'avís corresponent: cal llegir-la com el que és, la veu del segle IV aC. Redescoberta al segle XIII, l'obra va donar el vocabulari — ciutadà, constitució, democràcia, oligarquia — amb què Europa encara discuteix la política.
Context editorial, no una font citable: a diferència dels passatges de l'obra, aquestes dades no es poden contrastar amb el corpus.
First Issue Of This Edition 1912 Reprinted 1919, 1923, 1928 INTRODUCTION 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 in the last chapters of the Ethics he comes to the practical application of his inquiries, that finds expression not in moral exhortations addressed to the individual but in a description of the legislative opportunities of the statesman. It is the legislator's task to frame a society which shall make the good life possible. Politics for Aristotle is not a struggle between individuals or classes for power, nor a device for getting done such elementary tasks as the maintenance of order and security without too great encroachments on individual liberty. The state is "a community of well-being in families and aggregations of families for the sake of a perfect and self-sufficing life." The legislator is a craftsman whose material is society and whose aim is the good life. In an early dialogue of Plato's, the Protagoras, Socrates asks Protagoras why it is not as easy to find teachers of virtue as it is to find teachers of swordsmanship, riding, or any other art. Protagoras' answer is that there are no special teachers of virtue, because virtue is taught by the whole community. Plato and Aristotle both accept the view of moral education implied in this answer.…