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Politics
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work of political philosophy by Aristotle
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- Author
- John Stuart Mill
- First published
- 1848
- Editions
- 133
- Subjects
- Economics, Classical school of economics, Socialism, Money, Social sciences, philosophy, Philosophy, Social sciences, Outlines, syllabi
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Encyclopedic overview
Politics (Ancient Greek: Πολιτικά, Politiká) is a work of political philosophy by Aristotle, a 4th-century BC Greek philosopher.
At the end of the Nicomachean Ethics, Aristotle declared that the inquiry into ethics leads into a discussion of politics. The two works are frequently considered to be parts of a larger treatise – or perhaps connected lectures – dealing with the "philosophy of human affairs". In Aristotle's hierarchical system of philosophy he considers politics, the study of communities, to be of higher priority than ethics, which concerns individuals.
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