Aristotle's Political Theory

Aristotle (b. 384 - d. 322 BC), was a Greek philosopher, logician, and scientist. Along with his teacher Plato, Aristotle is generally regarded as one of the most influential ancient thinkers in a number of philosophical fields, including political theory. Aristotle was born in Stagira in northern Greece, and his father was a court physician to the king of Macedon. As a young man he studied in Plato's Academy in Athens. After Plato's death he left Athens …

…of Aristotle's Politics (Savage, Md., 1992). * Günther Patzig, ed., Aristoteles' Politik (Göttingen, 1990). * Stephen G. Salkever, Finding the Mean: Theory and Practice in Aristotelian Political Philosophy (Princeton, 1990). * Peter Simpson, A Philosophical Commentary on the Politics of Aristotle (Chapel Hill, 1998). * Judith A. Swanson, The Public and the Private in Aristotle's Political Philosophy (Ithaca, 1991). * Bernard Yack, The Problems of a Political Animal: Community, Justice, and Conflict in Aristotelian Political Thought (Berkeley, 1993).