Constitutions, or Politeiai (Ancient Greek: Πολιτεῖαι), was a series of monographs written under the inspiration of Aristotle by his students or by Aristotle...
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Athens. According to ancient sources, Aristotle compiled constitutions of 158 Greek states, of which the Constitution of the Athenians is the only one to...
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well-documented. In addition to such documentation, Aristotle pursued a research project of collecting 158 constitutions of various city-states in order to examine...
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Aristotle (Greek: Ἀριστοτέλης Aristotélēs; 384–322 BC) was an Ancient Greek philosopher and polymath. His writings cover a broad range of subjects spanning...
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Politeia (redirect from Polity (Aristotle))
A constitution which mixes oligarchy and democracy (terms which, as used by Aristotle, refer to vicious kinds of constitutions). A constitution in which...
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concept Draco introduced to Athenian government in his constitution. In Aristotle's Constitution of the Athenians, the council was vaguely characterized...
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Aristotle's Poetics (Greek: Περὶ ποιητικῆς Peri poietikês; Latin: De Poetica; c. 335 BCE) is the earliest surviving work of Greek dramatic theory and...
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procedure in which laws are made and by whom. Some constitutions, especially codified constitutions, also act as limiters of state power, by establishing...
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The works of Aristotle, sometimes referred to by modern scholars with the Latin phrase Corpus Aristotelicum, is the collection of Aristotle's works that...
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the Corpus Aristotelicum, attributed to the 4th-century BC philosopher Aristotle. It is a collection of treatises or lessons that deals with the most general...
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The Hippeus were also called the Knights in Aristotle's Athenian Constitution (circa. 350 BC). Aristotle gave an alternate characterisation for the class...
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Aristotle's Rhetoric (Ancient Greek: Ῥητορική, romanized: Rhētorikḗ; Latin: Ars Rhetorica) is an ancient Greek treatise on the art of persuasion, dating...
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Mixed government (redirect from Mixed constitutions)
making impossible their respective degenerations which are conceived in Aristotle's Politics as anarchy, oligarchy and tyranny. The idea was popularized...
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Athens: Constitution of the Athenians (Aristotle), a treatise on the Athenian constitution written by Aristotle or one of his students Constitution of the...
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Aristotelian ethics (redirect from Ethics (Aristotle))
Aristotle first used the term ethics to name a field of study developed by his predecessors Socrates and Plato which is devoted to the attempt to provide...
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Polis (section Aristotle's polis)
Greek-speaking settlements. For example, Aristotle's study of the polis names also Carthage, comparing its constitution to that of Sparta. Carthage was a Phoenician-speaking...
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The Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (A.U.Th.; often called the Aristotelian University or University of Thessaloniki; Greek: Αριστοτέλειο Πανεπιστήμιο...
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Draco (lawgiver) (section Draconian constitution)
from the Areopagus, which evolved in later constitutions to play a large role in Athenian democracy. Aristotle notes that Draco, while having the laws written...
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Legitimation crisis (section Aristotle)
right and wrong constitutions, Aristotle bases legitimacy on the rule of law, voluntary consent, and the public interest. While Aristotle's theory of distribution...
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Sophistical Refutations (redirect from Sophisms (Aristotle))
Sophisticis Elenchis) is a text in Aristotle's Organon in which he identified thirteen fallacies. According to Aristotle, this is the first work to treat...
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three "right" constitutions, which are in the common interest, and "wrong" constitutions, which are in the interest of rulers. To Aristotle, Plato is wrong...
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Organon (redirect from Aristotle's logic)
the standard collection of Aristotle's six works on logical analysis and dialectic. The name Organon was given by Aristotle's followers, the Peripatetics...
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The Areopagite constitution is the modern name for a period in ancient Athens described by Aristotle in his Constitution of the Athenians. According to...
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Natural law (section Aristotle)
of natural law was documented in ancient Greek philosophy, including Aristotle, and was mentioned in ancient Roman philosophy by Cicero. References to...
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The Topics (Greek: Τοπικά; Latin: Topica) is the name given to one of Aristotle's six works on logic collectively known as the Organon. In Andronicus of...
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Bekker numbering (category Works by Aristotle)
the works of Aristotle. It is based on the page numbers used in the Prussian Academy of Sciences edition of the complete works of Aristotle (1831–1837)...
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Nicomachean Ethics (category Works by Aristotle)
(/ˌnaɪkɒməˈkiən, ˌnɪ-/; Ancient Greek: Ἠθικὰ Νικομάχεια, Ēthika Nikomacheia) is Aristotle's best-known work on ethics: the science of the good for human life, that...
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artisans be publicly owned slaves. Aristotle criticized several aspects of Phaleas' proposed constitution. Aristotle argued that while leveling land ownership...
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rule by an individual. The term was first used by such ancient Greeks as Aristotle and Plato, who used it to describe a system where only the best of the...
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