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Aristotle ethics and politics6/28/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() The history of Greek city-states, their wars and intrigues and political churning, was well-documented. In the ancient Greek conception of politics, "administration should be democratic and law-making the work of experts", which is in contrast to modern liberal notions in which "e think… of law-making as the special right of the people and administration as necessarily confined to experts." Aristotle’s Politics is in part a course designed to train such experts to create or reform a set of laws. The title of Politics literally means "the things concerning the πόλις ( polis)", and is the origin of the modern English word politics. ![]() The end of the Nicomachean Ethics declared that the inquiry into ethics necessarily follows into politics, and the two works are frequently considered to be parts of a larger treatise-or perhaps connected lectures-dealing with the "philosophy of human affairs". Politics ( Πολιτικά, Politiká) is a work of political philosophy by Aristotle, a 4th-century BC Greek philosopher. Aristotle's comparative politics and theory, grounded in virtue ethics and natural philosophy ![]()
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