NOTES, BOOK zrz. 18. 147
The views of Aristotle respecting the relation of the good,) The good citizen is not the same with the good man in an
state, because his virtue is relative to the constitution?) But in the perfect state he is the same: and this appears to
l,? upon the whole the principal conclusion (c, 18. 4 I, and iv.3) Yet even in the perfect state the citizens cannot all conforin
10 a single type of perfection ; for they have special duties to per-
form and special virtues by w.hich they perform them (c. 4. $$ j, 6).
4) It is therefore the good ruler who is really to be identified
nith the good man (4 7 ; also i. 13. 9 8, where the subject is intro-
(!wed for the first time).
5) .\nd still a grain of a scruple may be made ’ ; for if the good
ruler be merely a ruler, the private citizen who knows both how to
iulc and how to obey \Till have more complete virtue.
6) And therefore in the perfect state the citizens should rule
ml be ruled by turns ($ II), cp. vii. c. 9.
This seems to be the result of many scattered and rather indis-
tinct observations made from different points of view and not
arranged in a clear logical order.citizen to the good man may be drawn out as follows:-(c. 4. 9 3).- 4 2).
iuhyxq Si rdv piAXovra mp‘r ahjs ?ror<uadJar riv xpoc{xovuav OKCI$W. 18. 2.
These words are removed from the end of this book by Beklier,
\tho in his Second Edition adopts the altered arrangement of the
I h~k. See Essay on the Structure of Xristotle’s Writings.
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