Aristotle Quotes On Politics
Book 1 chapter ii in which aristotle is describing the importance of the relationship between the state and the individual.
Aristotle quotes on politics. For as man is the best of all animals when he has reached his full development so he is worst of all when divorced from law and justice page 61 1253a lines 32 4. But governments which rule with a view to the private interest whether of the one or of the few or of the many are perversions. Wherefore if he have not virtue he is the most unholy and the most savage of animals and the most full of lust and gluttony.
But justice is the bond of men in states and the administration of justice which is the determination of what is just is the principle of order in political society aristotle politics. Popular quotes she stood at the edge of a glassy river lined with impossibly tall trees fanning out their wide emerald leaves among the puffy white clouds. So highly regarded in his time he was even appointed as the tutor of alexander the great by philip ii of macedon.
Aristotle was a greek philosopher during the classical period in ancient greece. As plato s most famous student aristotle spent his time researching and writing on a vast array of topics such as physics ethics poetry aesthetics theatre economics and politics. Politics by aristotle quotes.
The true forms of government therefore are those in which the one or the few or the many govern with a view to the common interest. In stageira greece born date february 16 0384 see more on goodreads.
