Those in the first row he referred to as “true forms” of government, while those in the second row were the “defective and perverted forms” of the first three. Forms of GovernmentĪristotle argued that there were six general ways in which societies could be organized under political rule, depending on who ruled, and for whom they ruled.

His text Politics is an exploration of different types of state organizations and tries to describe the state which will ultimately lead to the most fulfilled citizens. The Greek philosopher Aristotle believed that questions of the state, how it should be organized, and how it should pursue its ends, were fundamental to the achievement of happiness. The Loeb Classical Library edition of Aristotle is in twenty-three volumes.We’ve written before about why Plato matters. VII Fragments of various works such as dialogues on philosophy and literature and of treatises on rhetoric, politics and metaphysics. VI Other works including the Constitution of Athens more works also of doubtful authorship. III Physical: Twenty-six works (some suspect) including astronomy, generation and destruction, the senses, memory, sleep, dreams, life, facts about animals, etc. II Logical: Categories Analytics (Prior and Posterior) Interpretation Refutations used by Sophists Topica. They can be categorized as follows: I Practical: Nicomachean Ethics Great Ethics (Magna Moralia) Eudemian Ethics Politics Economics (on the good of the family) On Virtues and Vices.

Nearly all the works Aristotle prepared for publication are lost the priceless ones extant are lecture-materials, notes, and memoranda (some are spurious). Because of anti-Macedonian feeling there after Alexander's death in 323, he withdrew to Chalcis in Euboea, where he died in 322. After Philip's death in 336, Aristotle became head of his own school (of 'Peripatetics'), the Lyceum at Athens.

After some time at Mitylene, in 343–2 he was appointed by King Philip of Macedon to be tutor of his teen-aged son Alexander. He studied under Plato at Athens and taught there (367–347) subsequently he spent three years at the court of a former pupil, Hermeias, in Asia Minor and at this time married Pythias, one of Hermeias's relations. Aristotle, great Greek philosopher, researcher, reasoner, and writer, born at Stagirus in 384 BCE, was the son of Nicomachus, a physician, and Phaestis.

Politics by Aristotle