PHIL 888 Aristotle's Politics
Reading of the entire work, with treatment of such topics as the nature of political life, the sense of the common good, and the nature of the citizen; contrasts between city and household, between civic and despotic rule, between the republic on one hand and oligarchy and democracy on the other; discussion of the relation between political and theoretical life, and the role of education in politics. Contrasts are drawn between the Aristotelian polis and the modern state.