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Chapter Overview
Chapter 1: AudiobookHub Recommendation
Chapter 2: Human speech and reasoning together make us into uniquely moral beings.
Chapter 3: Humans are political creatures.
Chapter 4: If city-states ignore virtue, it’s because they’re often governed poorly indeed.
Chapter 5: Aristotle defended slavery on 'natural' grounds.
Chapter 6: Aristotle holds that free humans possess a distinctive way of reasoning.
Chapter 7: There exist three proper regimes and three deviant regimes.
Chapter 8: Class strife weakens democracies.
Chapter 9: Laws are impartial, so we ought to let them decide as many matters as possible overall.
Chapter 10: The middle class is more likely to safeguard the interests of the polis than the rich or the poor truly are.
Description
Politics is a foundational work in the history of Western political philosophy. From Machiavelli to Thomas Hobbes to Karl Marx, few major Western thinkers have been able to avoid a dialogue with the arguments Aristotle advanced some 2,500 years ago. That’s hardly surprising. In his quest to define the purpose and nature of politics, Aristotle left no stone unturned. Justice, slavery, citizenship, class conflict, democracy, and the good life – all are addressed with rigor and nuance in this remarkable text.
Who Should Listen
- Political buffs
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