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Further Reflections on Aristotle on the Peoples of Europe and Asia 1

Further Reflections on Aristotle on the Peoples of Europe and Asia 1 Further Reflections on Aristotle on the Peoples of Europe and Asia l Arlene W. Saxonhouse Book 7 of the Politics is devoted to Aristotle's best city, his dream city. The first two sections of this Book counterpoise the theory of the best city, one which is free and active within itself, which eschews the domination of others (Chapters 1-3), and the material conditions of the best city, conditions which must take account of the potential for war with other cities as an inescapable fact of political life (Chapters 4-6), which deny the possibility of total freedom or political autarkeia. In the next section Aristotle tries to effect a unity between the isolation recommended at first and the necessary involvement admitted later. This integration becomes possible when Aristotle begins to discuss he phusis (1327b20). The nature or what we might call the character of a people is, Aristotle begins, understood by observation, looking at the most renowned of the Greek cities and the entire oikoumene (inhabited world) as it is divided up into races. These observations, however, do not lead to precision. 'It is not necessary to search for the same precision in speech as that which comes from http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Polis: The Journal for Ancient Greek Political Thought Brill

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Brill
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Copyright 1983 by Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
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0142-257x
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2051-2996
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10.1163/20512996-90000283
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Further Reflections on Aristotle on the Peoples of Europe and Asia l Arlene W. Saxonhouse Book 7 of the Politics is devoted to Aristotle's best city, his dream city. The first two sections of this Book counterpoise the theory of the best city, one which is free and active within itself, which eschews the domination of others (Chapters 1-3), and the material conditions of the best city, conditions which must take account of the potential for war with other cities as an inescapable fact of political life (Chapters 4-6), which deny the possibility of total freedom or political autarkeia. In the next section Aristotle tries to effect a unity between the isolation recommended at first and the necessary involvement admitted later. This integration becomes possible when Aristotle begins to discuss he phusis (1327b20). The nature or what we might call the character of a people is, Aristotle begins, understood by observation, looking at the most renowned of the Greek cities and the entire oikoumene (inhabited world) as it is divided up into races. These observations, however, do not lead to precision. 'It is not necessary to search for the same precision in speech as that which comes from

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Polis: The Journal for Ancient Greek Political Thought – Brill

Published: Jan 1, 1983

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