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Aristotle's Politics | Book 1, Part 1

Philosophy for the People

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Aristotelian Politics and the Modern View

Aristotle says there's a hierarchy of communities and sub-hierarchies. He argues that at each level, although they're all ordered to the same ultimate good, each level has a distinctive kind of craft. Aristotle: Ruling yourself as an individual is going to be different than say, ruling,. running the household might be different from say, running a village may be different from running the polis or the city.

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