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Title: Politics: A Treatise on Government
Author: Aristotle
Translator: William Ellis
Release date: October 1, 2004 [eBook #6762]
Most recently updated: December 8, 2012
Language: English
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A TREATISE ON GOVERNMENT
By Aristotle
Translated From The Greek Of Aristotle By William Ellis, A.M.
London & Toronto Published By J M Dent & Sons Ltd. & In New York By E.
P. Dutton &. Co
First Issue Of This Edition 1912 Reprinted 1919, 1923, 1928
INTRODUCTION
The Politics of Aristotle is the second part of a treatise of which the Ethics is the first part. It looks back to the Ethics as the Ethics looks forward to the Politics. For Aristotle did not separate, as we are inclined to do, the spheres of the statesman and the moralist. In the
Ethics h…