POLITICS OF ARISTOTLE

2 A RZSTOTLE’S POL ZTZCS.

‘We are all agreed about the end of the state, but we are not

equally agreed about the definition of the ruler.’

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   1. “0001 piv 08v obrac soAtrrxbv iial &xdrrdu #ai oirovuprbv Kai
      &usoTcrbv &at dv ahbv w.T.A.
      The starting-point of Aristotle’s enquiry here, as in many other
      passages, is a criticism of Plato. See Politicus, 259 C, +aUcpbv
      ic inrunjpq pia scpi rdvr’ lur1 Taka*
      wuhircKju rirc oirouoprwjv rcs dvapd[rc, pq8iv ah+ Bia+rpAprBa.
      This criticism is further worked out in ii. c. 1-5 ; cp, especially,
      c. 2. $8 2-8, where Aristotle shows that the state is composed of
      dissimilar elements. An opposite view is maintained, or appears
      to be maintained by Socrates in Xen. hIem. iii. 4. 8 12, where he
      says, j riv i8i~ i‘mpihm lrhjOcc ph~~ 8m#+ 75s IGU KOlV&J ; and $7,
      where the good ~Ixou~pos is said to be the good urparqyds. This is
      a paradoxical way of insisting on the interdependence or identity
      of different callings ; Aristotle rather dwells upon their diversity.
   
   
   
   

rairqv 82 drr BRUL~IK+ drf

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   2. ob hv p& dhiyov.
      A general notion gathered from the words TO~~TLK~ Kai PaurXiKbu
   
   
   
   

Sc. &pxou 8, or Bpxn.

K.T.A.

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   2. mi rohircrdu 82 K.T.~.,
      sc. TAU ;pxovra h;youor.
   
   
   
   


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   2. r<s ~scur~pqs 4s rolut~s,
      sc. BOhlTiK~E, to be supplied either from the previous part of the
      sentence, or from the word ~O~ITIK~P which follows :-‘ According
      to the principles of the science which deals with this subject.’ Cp.
      i. 8. $ 7, BdXamav rocnirqv, where roiairqu is to be explained from
      cihirias which precedes : and in the same chapter, $9, .rocaGV Krijucs,
      where sorain) (meaning ‘in the sense of a bare livelihood’) is
      gathered from akd+uros and pi 6i 6hiay$r in the previous section ;
      and ii. 4. $ 4,6ti a rocoimuc rfvar rois cipx~pluous spbr rb nrc0apXciv rai
      ptj Vrwrpi&iv; where rocohour, meaning ‘disunited,’ is a notion
      supplied from the preceding words,-Tjrrov yhp %TU $Ais KO~V~V
      bvrw rLv rirvcuv KR~ r9v yvvarxiv: and ii. 6. $ az, &E piv dv O~K b 8qp-
      Kpariar mi pompxias 6ri wvturdvai njv rodqv nohcrtiav, where the