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Plato, Aristotle, and the Purpose of Politics (Paperback)
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Plato, Aristotle, and the Purpose of Politics (Paperback)
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In this book, Kevin M. Cherry compares the views of Plato and
Aristotle about the practice, study and, above all, the purpose of
politics. The first scholar to place Aristotle's Politics in
sustained dialogue with Plato's Statesman, Cherry argues that
Aristotle rejects the view of politics advanced by Plato's Eleatic
Stranger, contrasting them on topics such as the proper
categorization of regimes, the usefulness and limitations of the
rule of law, and the proper understanding of phronesis. The various
differences between their respective political philosophies,
however, reflect a more fundamental difference in how they view the
relationship of human beings to the natural world around them.
Reading the Politics in light of the Statesman sheds new light on
Aristotle's political theory and provides a better understanding of
Aristotle's criticism of Socrates. Most importantly, it highlights
an enduring and important question: should politics have as its
primary purpose the preservation of life, or should it pursue the
higher good of living well?
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