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Politics de Aristotle

Politics

Autor Aristotle Joe Sachs Introducere de Dr. Lijun Gu Ph.D
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 10 aug 2012

Veți descoperi în această lucrare fundamentală nu doar un tratat de științe politice, ci o explorare profundă a modului în care comunitățile umane se organizează pentru a atinge fericirea colectivă. Notăm cu interes felul în care Aristotle ancorează politica în etică, transformând guvernarea dintr-un simplu exercițiu de putere într-o extensie naturală a virtuții umane. Considerăm că forța acestui text rezidă în capacitatea sa de a clasifica regimurile politice pe baza unui criteriu moral: dacă acestea servesc binele comun sau doar interesele conducătorilor.

Structura volumului reflectă o progresie logică riguroasă, pornind de la unitatea de bază a societății — gospodăria — și culminând cu analiza complexă a statului ca asociație naturală. Ca și Athenian Constitution. Eudemian Ethics. Virtues and Vices, această operă analizează structurile de guvernare, dar se diferențiază prin accentul pus pe fundamentul filosofic și teleologic al statului, nu doar pe cronica sa istorică. În contextul operei sale, Politics întregește viziunea expusă în Nicomachean Ethics, demonstrând că omul este, prin natura sa, un animal politic care își poate atinge potențialul maxim doar în cadrul unei cetăți bine rânduite.

Ritmul lecturii este unul analitic, susținut de notele și introducerile semnate de T. A. Sinclair și T. J. Saunders, care clarifică terminologia tehnică și disputele editoriale privind ordinea originală a capitolelor. Este o lucrare esențială pentru a înțelege vocabularul intelectual al Occidentului, oferind perspective asupra sclaviei, economiei de familie și educației cetățenilor care rămân subiecte de dezbatere și în prezent.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781585103768
ISBN-10: 1585103764
Pagini: 336
Ilustrații: none
Dimensiuni: 140 x 216 x 21 mm
Greutate: 0.39 kg
Ediția:First Edition
Editura: Hackett Publishing Company,Inc
Colecția Focus
Locul publicării:United States

De ce să citești această carte

Pentru cititorul pasionat de istoria ideilor și de bazele democrației, această carte oferă claritate asupra modului în care s-au născut conceptele de stat și cetățenie. Veți câștiga o înțelegere profundă a sistemelor de guvernare, învățând să distingeți între regimurile orientate spre binele public și cele deviante. Este o resursă indispensabilă pentru studenții la științe politice și pentru oricine dorește să analizeze societatea modernă prin prisma gândirii clasice.

Despre autor

Aristotle (384–322 î.Hr.) a fost un filosof grec și polimat, elev al lui Platon și preceptor al lui Alexandru cel Mare. Fondator al Liceului din Atena și al școlii peripatetice, contribuțiile sale acoperă aproape toate domeniile cunoașterii, de la biologie și fizică până la logică și poetică. Deși doar o treime din scrierile sale au supraviețuit, acestea au format lexicul intelectual al Occidentului. În Politics, el sintetizează observațiile empirice asupra constituțiilor vremii sale, stabilind bazele științei politice moderne și influențând decisiv modul în care înțelegem astăzi guvernarea și etica socială.

Descriere

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.

Recenzii

“I have seen in my own classroom how much students have been helped by the Sachs translations. I’m frequently approached by students and asked why there isn’t a Sachs translation for Aristotle’s Politics. This translation will undoubtedly be welcome news to many students and scholars of Aristotle.”
—Lijun Gu, St. John's College

“I used to encourage students not to be put off from the brilliance of Aristotle's ideas by the density of his imposing prose, until I came across the rigorous and readable set of translations by Joe Sachs. 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

“Joe Sachs’ masterful translation of Aristotle’s Politics is the latest in a series encompassing Aristotle’s Physics, (1995), Metaphysics (1999), On the Soul and On Memory and Recollection (2001), Nicomachean Ethics (2002), Poetics (2006) and Rhetoric (2009). This fact alone sets him apart from all other recent translators of the Politics: 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. In addition, he set himself the goal of avoiding in them the use of the traditional scholastic terminology which obstructs so much the interpretation of Aristotle’s thought. The Politics poses a unique challenge for the translator because it is a work of political philosophy, hence it necessarily has two kinds of readers in view and its language is both logically precise and rhetorically powerful. Joe Sachs’ translation renders both aspects with unmatched elegance and precision.”
—Antonio Marino López, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México

“Sachs’ erudite, yet accessible, extremely careful, and obviously thoughtful translation of Aristotle's Politics is impressive beyond measure. 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. Indeed, Sachs’ text offers an understandable translation of one of the most important Aristotelian texts, while remaining extremely faithful to the original Greek. In addition, the supplementary features of Sachs’ translation, which include notes that help provide further understanding and context for certain claims, as well as the Glossary and the Summary of Contents, which appear at the end of the text, provide wonderful aids for those who are invested in understanding Aristotle's Politics.”
—Corinne Painter, Washtenaw Community College

“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. For beginning students Sachs’s translations are an ideal vehicle through which to engage Aristotle’s philosophy. For those of us who are more advanced, they are sufficiently different from the traditional translations to open fresh ways of thinking about the texts. Sachs does a fine job with the Politics. The translation is very readable and accurate, and the notes and glossary are insightful. The introductory essay by Lijun Gu valuably emphasizes the importance of book IV.”
—Edward Halper, University of Georgia

The Focus Philosophical Library publishes clear, faithful editions by renowned scholars and teachers enabling access for modern students to essential ideas and wisdom of the world’s greatest thinkers.
“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: 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 Nicomachean Ethics and Poetics.
Lijun Gu has been a tutor at St. John’s College in Annapolis, Maryland, since 1996.

Cuprins

Table of Contents
Translator’s Preface
Introduction by Lijun Gu
Aristotle’s Politics (Book titles added by translator)
Book I. The natural basis of the city
Book II. Previous opinions about the best city
Book III. Citizenship and political rule
Book IV. The spectrum of democratic and oligarchic forms of government
Book V. Factions and changes of government
Book VI. How democracies and oligarchies can be made more effective and enduring
Book VII. Characteristics of the best city
Book VIII. Education of citizens
Glossary
Summary of Contents
Index

Notă biografică

Aristotle (Greek: ¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿ Aristotél¿s, pronounced [aristotél¿¿s]; 384-322 BC)[A] was a Greek philosopher and polymath during the Classical period in Ancient Greece. Taught by Plato, he was the founder of the Lyceum, the Peripatetic school of philosophy, and the Aristotelian tradition. His writings cover many subjects. including physics, biology, zoology, metaphysics, logic, ethics, estheticspoetry, theatre, music, rhetoric, psychology, linguistics, economics, politics, and government. Aristotle provided a complex synthesis of the various philosophies existing prior to him. It was above all from his teachings that the West inherited its intellectual lexicon, as well as problems and methods of inquiry. As a result, his philosophy has exerted a unique influence on almost every form of knowledge in the West and it continues to be a subject of contemporary philosophical discussion. Little is known about his life. Aristotle was born in the city of Stagira in Northern Greece. His father, Nicomachus, died when Aristotle was a child, and he was brought up by a guardian. At seventeen or eighteen years of age he joined Plato's Academy in Athens and remained there until the age of thirty-seven (c. 347 BC).[4] Shortly after Plato died, Aristotle left Athens and, at the request of Philip II of Macedon, tutored Alexander the Great beginning in 343 BC.[5] He established a library in the Lyceum which helped him to produce many of his hundreds of books on papyrus scrolls. Though Aristotle wrote many elegant treatises and dialogues for publication, only around a third of his original output has survived, none of it intended for publication.[6] Aristotle's views on physical science profoundly shaped medieval scholarship. Their influence extended from Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages into the Renaissance, and were not replaced systematically until the Enlightenment and theories such as classical mechanics. Some of Aristotle's zoological observations found in his biology, such as on the hectocotyl (reproductive) arm of the octopus, were disbelieved until the 19th century. His works contain the earliest known formal study of logic, studied by medieval scholars such as Peter Abelard and John Buridan. Aristotle's influence on logic also continued well into the 19th century.