I gave these works of Aristotle a four star rating based entirely on the politics book and not the poetics book. First, it was relevant. Published The lost second part addressed comedy. One of those books on my 'must read' list for those interesting in understanding and challenging the naked emThis is a powerful and life changing read. This is contrary to the Platonist view, asserting that only very few can take part in the deliberative or judicial administration of the state.After studying a number of real and theoretical city-states' constitutions, Aristotle classified them according to various criteria. V Art: Rhetoric and Poetics.
The difference between these two kinds of virtues would be that a moral virtue is one that is learned by habit and the repetition of it while an intellectual virtue is one that has been taught or instructed to you.
Somehow it manages to instill a deep and broad understanding of the dynamics and structure of society, social order, and people. I had a tough time setting this one down.I read this for Humanities 101 during my first semester at Grinnell College. I wasn't going to remove a star on the review because I'm not subject matter expert on poetry. VII Fragments of various works such as dialogues on philosophy and literature; and of treatises on rhetoric, politics and metaphysics. "He who has the power to take part in the deliberative or judicial administration of any state is said by us to be a citizen of that state; and speaking generally, a state is a body of citizens sufficing for the purpose of life. One of those books on my 'must read' list for those interesting in understanding and challenging the naked emperors running (and ruining) society.It's amazing how relevant for today Aristotle's words are!
VI Other works including the Constitution of Athens; more works also of doubtful authorship.
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Aristotle also talks about how both the husband and wife are both equal in the sense that they are free in terms of nature but then states that the husband still rules the household over the woman as that is the role to which he is given by nature.
Not the most exciting read, but incredible insights into the nature of government, the people being governed, and the relationship among the two. Aristotle closes this text by advising three important rules of conduct to ensure one doesn't go too far in the attempt to be virtuous. This was mostly in the Politics; I didn't find Poetics as cutting edge. Rule over the slaves is despotic, rule over children kingly, and rule over one's wife political (except there is no rotation in office). My reading it was one of the key elements in fully understanding just how perniciously misleading is the media with its agendae of social management by fostering and planting ignorance of history. While most of the Politics escapes me after all of these years, the Poetics remains fresh to mind for two reasons.
He put's his finger on some of the key threats to democracy, and they seem right in as regards current events. Aristotle then moves to the topic of the "Arts of Acquisition", arguing that the acquisition of property does not form a part of household management (Book I concludes with Aristotle's assertion that the proper object of household rule is the virtuous character of one's wife and children, not the management of slaves or the acquisition of property. He then again compares that to the monarch stating that a king rules while the queen doesn't, though she's free and has power as well.