Politics

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Aristotle's treatise on the nature and proper ordering of political communities, composed at the Lyceum in the late 4th century BCE as a companion to the Nicomachean Ethics. It argues that man is by nature a political animal and that the state exists for the sake of the good life, not merely for survival. The work anchors the entire Western tradition of political philosophy, including its analyses of citizenship, constitution, revolution, and the relation of economics to politics.

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