Política
- Idioma:
- inglés
- Estado:
- Obra completa
- Autoría:
- Escrita por el autor
- Estado del texto:
- Texto limpio
- Extensión:
- ~100.000 palabras · 487 pasajes
Cita esta obra
- APAAristóteles. (n.d.). Política. SigPhi. https://sigphiai.com/es/works/aristotle/politics-a-treatise-on-government
- MLAAristóteles. "Política." SigPhi, https://sigphiai.com/es/works/aristotle/politics-a-treatise-on-government.
- ChicagoAristóteles. Política. SigPhi. https://sigphiai.com/es/works/aristotle/politics-a-treatise-on-government.
De qué trata
El hombre es un animal político: el estudio de la polis como forma natural de la vida humana, los tipos de constitución, por qué caen los regímenes y cómo se educa a un ciudadano.
Contexto e historia
Como la Ética, a la que continúa, son apuntes de las lecciones del Liceo, hacia el 330 a. C. — y el método es el mismo: la escuela de Aristóteles había reunido las constituciones de 158 ciudades para estudiarlas como un naturalista estudia especies. El Libro I contiene su defensa de la esclavitud «natural», que el corpus señala con el aviso correspondiente: hay que leerla como lo que es, la voz del siglo IV a. C. Redescubierta en el siglo XIII, la obra dio el vocabulario — ciudadano, constitución, democracia, oligarquía — con el que Europa aún discute la política.
Contexto editorial, no una fuente citable: a diferencia de los pasajes de la obra, estos datos no se pueden comprobar contra 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.…