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Aristotle, Politics,
Book II, Chapters 5 -12
The meeting will be at our usual location in Rice Village. RSVPs will receive detailed directions the week of the meeting.
Our May discussion took us into Book II, covering Aristotle's critique of Plato's ideas on having women and children in common. We began the discussion of Chapter 5, where he takes up the common ownership and control of property in the Republic.
We'll continue with this theme in June, in the Republic, then in Plato's Laws and in the scheme of Phaleas the Calcedonian. From there Aristotle turns to Hippodamus, the original city planner, the government of the Spartans, the Cretans and the Carthaginians. Finally, in Chapter 12, he concludes Book II with some comments on the work of some specific law-givers from various cities.
Here are links for three translations:
Cairnes Lord -- most commonly used translation in universities today:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ANLZ3rQyO4a4kQ5sc-RL2U5IRmHpinX0/view?usp=sharing
Cairnes Lord, the Kindle version:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Z1jCLFbE02XOLU1qKljshb9T8kBGnbEk/view?usp=sharing
Ernest Barker -- the gold standard when I was in school:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1AL8sjX-DsQO6fM1Ht-IQuKDw9Hy_Bvfm/view?usp=sharing
Joe Sachs -- a recent translation that sticks closely to the Greek and is very helpful with Greek terminology:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1A3Px3tYlFaXXJwNbwmS9jG9_oZsXZnvi/view?usp=sharing
Join us June 19th for a discussion of Aristotle's Politics