Politica
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Cita quest'opera
- APAAristotele. (n.d.). Politics: A Treatise on Government [Politica]. Digital reproduction: SigPhi. https://sigphiai.com/it/works/aristotle/politics-a-treatise-on-government
- MLAAristotele. Politics: A Treatise on Government [Politica]. Digital reproduction, SigPhi, https://sigphiai.com/it/works/aristotle/politics-a-treatise-on-government.
- ChicagoAristotele. Politics: A Treatise on Government [Politica]. Digital reproduction, SigPhi. https://sigphiai.com/it/works/aristotle/politics-a-treatise-on-government.
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Di che cosa tratta
L'uomo è un animale politico: lo studio della polis come forma naturale della vita umana, i tipi di costituzione, perché cadono i regimi e come si educa un cittadino.
Contesto e storia
Come l'Etica, che prosegue, sono appunti delle lezioni del Liceo, verso il 330 a.C. — e il metodo è lo stesso: la scuola di Aristotele aveva raccolto le costituzioni di 158 città per studiarle come un naturalista studia le specie. Il Libro I contiene la sua difesa della schiavitù «naturale», che il corpus segnala con l'avviso corrispondente: va letta per ciò che è, la voce del IV secolo a.C. Riscoperta nel Duecento, l'opera fornì il vocabolario — cittadino, costituzione, democrazia, oligarchia — con cui l'Europa discute ancora di politica.
Contesto editoriale, non una fonte citabile: a differenza dei passi dell'opera, questi dati non si possono verificare sul corpus.
good. In so far as men conceive the good rightly they are united. The state represents their common agreement, force their failure to make that agreement complete. The cure, therefore, of political ills is knowledge of the good life, and the statesman is he who has such knowledge, for that alone can give men what they are always seeking. If the state is the organisation of men seeking a common good, power and political position must be given to those who can forward this end. This is the principle expressed in Aristotle's account of political justice, the principle of "tools to those who can use them." As the aim of the state is differently conceived, the qualifications for government will vary. In the ideal state power will be given to the man with most knowledge of the good; in other states to the men who are most truly capable of achieving that end which the citizens have set themselves to pursue. The justest distribution of political power is that in which there is least waste of political ability. Further, the belief that the constitution of a state is only the outward expression of the common aspirations and beliefs of its members, explains the paramount political importance which Aristotle assigns to education. It is the great instrument by which the legislator can ensure that the future citizens of his state will share those common beliefs which make the state possible. The Greeks with their small states had a far clearer apprehension than we can have of the dependence of a constitution upon the people who have to work it. Such is in brief the attitude in which Aristotle approaches political problems, but in working out its application to men and institutions as they are, Aristotle admits certain compromises which are not really consistent with it. 1. Aristotle thinks of membership of a state as community in pursuit of the good.…