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Aristotle And His Political Ideas

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  • 27-11-2003 1:03am
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    Ichiro
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    Am seeking advice.

    Have a presentation and Paper to hand in about aristotle and his political thinking
    Could anyone tell me where to start
    as i have'nt a notion where to begin.

    I will scour the net no doubt about that
    but what should i look out for

    Many thanks
    Ichiro

    "Captain of Tom Doylery"


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    bonkey
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    I'd start with google, and a search on "aristotle political thinking" personally.

    Unfortunately, I have no non-smart-ass or even vaguely useful comments to help you with...

    jc


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    DadaKopf
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    Well, uh, how about getting to your college's library.

    Get Aristotle's 'Politics' (the revised Penguin editions have good introductions), search the library's catalogue for books on Aristotle and consult philosophical and political journals for contemporary perspectives, particularly good critiques of his ideas, the historical context, books about how those ideas have filtered through the centuries. Y'know, getting research material takes work too, you know.

    But like, hey, it's Aristotle. It's not like it's gonna be hard finding out stuff about him.

    Generally titles with the words 'introduction' in the title is an indication of an accessible text. This one is probably very good: http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/0192854089/qid=1069937365/sr=1-9/ref=sr_1_3_9/026-0564797-0653208 and probably anything published by Routledge.

    For web references, this is a good place to start: http://www.utm.edu/research/iep/a/aristotl.htm , I guess.


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    Ichiro
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    Thanks For the help People,
    Will do DadaKopf


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    Éomer of Rohan
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    Certainly reading Aristotle's Atheneia Politeia or Ath. Pol. as it is commonly called gives various insights into his opinion on democracy in the Ancient World. Reading some things by Plato would also be insightful since one derived from the other.


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    m1ke
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    here's an online copy of Aristotles Politics, everything you need is in there, it's just a matter of deciphering it with some introductory texts.

    http://www.constitution.org/ari/polit_00.htm


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    Ichiro
    Closed Accounts Posts: 423 ✭✭Ichiro


    Bloody hell thats a lot of writing
    gotta squeeze that all into 1500 words
    lucky me


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    TomF
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    The subject of this thread reminded me of Eamonn Kelly, story teller (R.I.P.) who talked about the old fellows living in little places in Kerry who, knowing about the ancient Greeks and discussing the philosophers in their homely way, referred to "Harry Stottle".


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