page_title: Politics (Aristotle)
section_title: Book IV
hierarchical_section_title: Politics (Aristotle) / Overview / Book IV
caption_attribution_description: Alternative diagram illustrating the classification of constitutions by Aristotle
context_page_description: Politics is a work of political philosophy by Aristotle, a 4th-century BC Greek philosopher.
  The end of the Nicomachean Ethics declared that the inquiry into ethics necessarily follows into politics, and the two works are frequently considered to be parts of a larger treatise—or perhaps connected lectures—dealing with the "philosophy of human affairs". The title of the Politics literally means "the things concerning the polis".
context_section_description: Tasks of political theory
  Why are there many types of constitutions?
  Types of democracies
  Types of oligarchies
  Polity (Constitutional Government) – highest form of government
  When perverted, a Polity becomes a Democracy, the least harmful derivative government as regarded by Aristotle.
  Government offices
caption: Aristotle's classification of constitutions
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