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Search this Title:Also in the Library:Subject Area: Political TheoryBOOK VI. - Aristotle, The Politics vol. 2 [1885]Edition used:The Politics of Aristotle, trans. into English with introduction, marginal analysis, essays, notes and indices by B. Jowett. Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1885. 2 vols. Vol. 2.
Author: AristotleTranslator: Benjamin JowettPart of: The Politics 2 vols.
Notes On Aristotle’s Politics.
The greater part of Book vi. has been already anticipated in iv. There are also several repetitions of Book v. A few sentences may be paralleled out of ii. and iii. (See English Text.) The whole is only a different redaction of the same or nearly the same materials which have been already used; not much is added. The varieties of democracy and oligarchy and the causes of their preservation or destruction are treated over again, but in a shorter form. The management of the poor is worked out in greater detail: the comparison of the military and civil constitution of a state is also more precise and exact. The magistrates required in states are regarded from a different point of view: in iv. they are considered chiefly with reference to the mode of electing them and their effect on the constitution; in vi. they are enumerated and described, and the officers necessary to all states are distinguished from those which are only needed in certain states. There are several passages in which a previous treatment of the same subjects is recognized (1. § 1, § 5, § 8, § 10; 4. § 1, § 15; 5. § 2; 8. § 1). The references seem to have been inserted with a view of combining the two treatments in a single work.
ἅμα τε περὶ ἐκείνων εἴ τι λοιπόν
seems to indicate the supplementary character of this part of the work. 1) ‘As well as any omission of those matters (ἐκείνων) which have just been mentioned,’ i. e. the offices, law-courts, etc.; or 2*) ἐκείνων may refer to the forms of constitutions [πολιτειω̂ν].
Bekker in his 2nd edition inserts περὶ τὸ before βουλενόμενον in § 4, and ἐπεὶ before δεɩ̂ in § 6 without any authority, both apparently in order to make the language smoother and more regular. But this is not a good reason for altering the text of Aristotle.
αὕτη δ’ ἐστὶν ἣν καλον̂σί τινες ὀλιγαρχίαν,
‘which they call oligarchy,’ is perhaps only an example of unmeaning pleonasm like the expression ὁ καλούμενος ἀήρ, Meteor. i. 3, 339 b. 3; τὴν τον̂ καλουμένου γάλακτος ϕύσιν, Pol. i. 8. § 10. But it is also possible that Aristotle here uses the term in the wider sense in which he has previously spoken of oligarchy and democracy as the two principal forms of government under which the rest are included (iv. 3. § 6). Cp. note on iv. 8. § 1.
τῃ̑ δ’ ἅπαντα ταν̂τα.
‘All the democratic elements of which he has spoken generally and is going to speak more particularly,’ i. e. election by lot, elections of all out of all, no property qualification, payment of the citizens (etc., see infra c. 2. § 5), ‘may exist in the same state.’
ὡς ἐν μόνῃ τῃ̑ πολιτείᾳ ταύτῃ μετέχοντας ὲλευθερί�