Aristotle believed that the biggest and most widespread source of political tension is the struggle between the haves and the have-nots. More than 2,000 years later, he’s got a point.

Aristotle’s political thought might provide a more solid foundation for liberal politics than the view of human nature offered by early modern theorists. Professor Nichols studies Greek political ...

“Nothing is so obscure it does not deserve to be found.” These words are from Delba Winthrop’s 1974 dissertation on Book III of Aristotle’s Politics, a document high on the list of things that deserve ...

An America’s Founding and Future Lecture. Reflections on Leslie G. Rubin's America, Aristotle, and the Politics of a Middle Class (Baylor University Press, 2018). The founders of the American regime ...

From Benjamin Jowett's 1885 translation of Aristotle's "Politics": A city ought to be composed, as far as possible, of equals and similars; and these are generally the middle classes. Wherefore ...

What is Aristotle's political cycle? Aristotle classified six forms of states and believed that these keep revolving in a cyclic order. The cycle begins with monarchy which soon gets perverted ...

Aristotle, Politics. Slaves were not totally incapable of thought, but they only needed minimal amount of rational ability; just enough to understand and carry out their duties.