The Focus Philosophical Library”s edition of Aristotle”s Politics is a lucid and useful translation for the student of undergraduate philosophy, as well as for the general reader interested in the major works of western civilization. This edition includes an introductory essay, notes, glossary, and index, intending to provide the reader with some sense of the terms and the concepts as they were understood by Aristotle’s immediate audience.
Focus Philosophical Library books are distinguished by their commitment to faithful, clear, and consistent presentations of texts and the rich world part and parcel of those texts.
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“What strikes me most in this welcome new translation of Aristotle’s Politics is the sense of Aristotle as a man thinking carefully how to speak about political realities he studied and witnessed, rather than a treatise-builder expounding political doctrines.” —Nathan Andersen, Eckerd College
“This fact alone sets Joe Sachs apart from all other recent translators of the Politics New Edition: he is the only one who is not a specialist in one area of Aristotelian philosophy and his holistic command of the corpus allows him to deliver the most nuanced and precise translations available in English.” —Antonio Marino López, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
“Joe Sachs has an extraordinary ability to render ancient Greek into English sentences that are so clear and direct that they help readers to look past Aristotle’s technical terminology and reflect on the philosophical issues in the text.” —Edward Halper, University of Georgia
“This translation is a must, both for scholars working on or otherwise interested in Aristotle’s Politics as well as for students and others who might be reading this text for the first time.” —Corinne Painter, Washtenaw Community College
Joe Sachs taught for thirty years at St. John’s College in Annapolis, Maryland. His other translations for the Focus Philosophical Library include Aristotle’s NicomacheanEthics and Poetics. Lijun Gu has been a tutor at St. John’s College in Annapolis, Maryland, since 1996.
About the Author
Joe Sachs taught for thirty years at St. John’s College in Annapolis, Maryland. He has translated Aristotle’s Physics, Metaphysics, and On the Soul and, for the Focus Philosophical Library, Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics and Poetics, Plato’s Theaetetus and Republic, a collection of Plato’s dialogues entitled Socrates and the Sophists,and an edition of Plato’s Gorgias and Aristotle’s Rhetoric.
Joe Sachs taught for thirty years at St. John’s College in Annapolis, Maryland. He has translated Aristotle’s Physics, Metaphysics, and On the Soul and, for the Focus Philosophical Library, Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics and Poetics, Plato’s Theaetetus and Republic, a collection of Plato’s dialogues entitled Socrates and the Sophists,and an edition of Plato’s Gorgias and Aristotle’s Rhetoric.
<1252a> Since we see that every city is some kind of association, and every association is organized for the sake of some good (since everything everyone does is for the sake of something seeming to be good), it is clear that all associations aim at something good, and that the one that is most sovereign and encompasses all the others aims at the most sovereign of all goods. And this is the one called the city, the political association.
Now those who assume that the same person is skilled at political rule as at kingship, household management, and mastery of slaves do not speak beautifully. (For they regard each of these
<10> as differentiated with respect to manyness or fewness but not in form—a master being over few, a household manager over more, and a political ruler or a king over still more, as if a large household were no different from a small city; as for the political ruler and the king, when one has control himself, they regard him as a king, but as a political ruler when he rules and is ruled by turns in accordance with the propositions of this sort of knowledge. These things, though, are not true.) What is being said will be clear to those who investigate it along the usual path, for just as it is necessary in other cases to divide a compound thing up into uncompounded ones (since these are <20> the smallest parts of the whole), so too with a city, it is by examining what it is composed of that we shall also see more about these rulers, both in what respect they differ from one another and whether it is possible to get hold of anything involving art applicable to each of the things mentioned.
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