The Political Thought of Plato and Aristotle by Sir Ernest Barkerboom in good condition, see photos

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by Ernest Barker

The reprinting of this work should be hailed not only by students of political science, but by virtually every person interested in the history of Western thought, social organization, and culture; and it might not be amiss to include here everyone interested in modern political theory. There is hardly an aspect of Western political thought that does not reflect the concepts of political theory formulated in the "Republic" of Plato or the "Politics" of Aristotle. These, and other works of Plato and Aristotle remain the most profound investigations of the sources of state power, the nature of political organization, the aims of the state, citizenship, justice, law, and other basic political concepts. No worthwhile theory of politics is ever likely to be written that does not base itself on a consideration of these writings. Although the first portion of this book, about Plato, was later enlarged, the portion about Aristotle has remained unavailable.

Ernest Barker's THE POLITICAL THOUGHT OF PLATO AND ARISTOTLE remains one of the clearest and most accurate expositions of the corpus of Greek political thought. It is listed as a standard source in Dutcher's "A Guide to Historical Literature." Shaw's

"List of Books for College Libraries," and other authoritative bibliographies. One of the most comprehensive works in its area, it provides, in addition to extensive point-by point discussions of the "Republic" and the "Politics," critical examinations of the

"Ethics of Aristotle, and of many crucial dialogues of Plato. Further, it considers the origin of these ideas in the Greek political experience and in the contributions of other Greek theorists, including Heraclitus, Pythagoras and other Sophists, the Cyrenaics, and the Encyclopedists. This classic of scholarship also includes epilogues which consider how Greek political ideas were modified by Aquinas, Marsilio of Padua, Machiavelli, Spinoza, Hobbes, Rousseau, and Hegel.

PARTIAL CONTENTS: The Pre-Socratics, Socrates, and the Minor Socratics; The State of Nature and the Social Contract; Socrates and his Lesser Followers: Plato and the Platonic Dialogue; The Plan and Motives of the "Republic"; Plato's Theory of Education; Plato's View of Monarchy, and of the Mixed State; The Sources of the "Politics"; The Teleology of Aristotle; Ethics and Politics; The Origin of the State; The End of the State; The Classification of States; Aristotle's Conception of Law and Justice; The Theory of Slavery;

Aristotle's Theory of Distribution; The Organization of the Ideal State; Greek Democracy and Greek Oligarchy; The Mixed Constitution; The Theory of Sedition and its Cures; The Later History of the "Politics"; The Later History of the "Republic." Complete and unabridged. Index. Chronological Table of Events. Fully Annotated.

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