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From: Monarch Notes
Date: 19630101
Author:Aristotle

Aristotle
Monarch Notes
01-01-1963
The Politics: Introduction, Book 1

Politics - The Study Of The State:

We have seen in the Ethics how a man's character depends on the society
in which he is brought up. To learn how to act intelligently, one must live
in a community which believes that it is important to act intelligently. In
order to perform his function of living according to reason, a man must have
a field of action in which to operate. This field is the state. In the
Politics, Aristotle investigates "that larger science" of which ethics is a
part. The Politics is thus Aristotle's book on ...

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