Aristotle's teaching in the Politics
By: Thomas L. Pangle
Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
Published: 2013
Language: eng
Number of pages: 343
ISBN-13: 9780226016030
Copyright date: 2013
Subjects: Philosophy; Study and teaching; Political science
Description: With the Politics, Pangle argues, Aristotle seeks to lead his students down a deliberately difficult path of critical thinking about civic republican life. He adopts a Socratic approach, encouraging his students - and readers - to become active participants in a dialogue. Seen from this perspective, features of the work that have perplexed previous commentators become perfectly comprehensible as artful devices of a didactic approach. Ultimately, Pangle's close and careful analysis shows that to understand the Politics, one must first appreciate how Aristotle's rhetorical strategy is inextricably entwined with the subject of his work."--Pub. desc.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The rhetorical strategy governing Aristotle's teaching; title: Book one : the distinctiveness and supremacy of the political; title: Book two : previous conceptions of the best regime; title: Book three : the debate over justice among the regimes; title: Books four through six : ameliorating actual regimes; title: Books seven and eight : the simply best republic.