ARISTOTLE'SPOLITICS
What makes a good society? How should it be governed and who should be allowed to live in it? These are old questions but they don’t go away. Thomas Hobbes, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Thomas Aquinas and Niccolo Machiavelli, to name but a few, have all asked them and come up with wildly differing answers.
But they do have one thing in common and that is a book by the Greek philosopher Aristotle. It is called Politics – a two and a half thousand year old collection of notes that have cast a very long shadow in political philosophy. In the Politics Aristotle tried to establish why human beings live together and how best they should do it.
Contributors
Angie Hobbs, Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Warwick
Paul Cartledge, AG Leventis Professor of Greek Culture at the University of Cambridge
Annabel Brett, Senior Lecturer in History at the University of Cambridge
What makes a good society? How should it be governed and who should be allowed to live in it? These are old questions but they don’t go away. Thomas Hobbes, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Thomas Aquinas and Niccolo Machiavelli, to name but a few, have all asked them and come up with wildly differing answers.
But they do have one thing in common and that is a book by the Greek philosopher Aristotle. It is called Politics – a two and a half thousand year old collection of notes that have cast a very long shadow in political philosophy. In the Politics Aristotle tried to establish why human beings live together and how best they should do it.
Contributors
Angie Hobbs, Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Warwick
Paul Cartledge, AG Leventis Professor of Greek Culture at the University of Cambridge
Annabel Brett, Senior Lecturer in History at the University of Cambridge
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