The Living Tool – Aristotle’s Politics
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Nov. 8 – We will read Politics I.4. So the complete household [1] has both freemen and slaves, [2] comprises of three distinct relationships (master-slave, husband-wife, and parent-child), and [3] requires four branches of craft-knowledge for household management {oikonomia}, the fourth of which is the art of gaining wealth.
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The first relationship will read next is that of master-slave.
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We are live-reading Aristotle's Politics, the treatise on the practical governance of the city-state for the sake of enabling and promoting its citizens individually to flourish.
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The prerequisite to this treatise is a familiarity with Aristotelian ethics—whether that be Nicomachean ethics, Eudemian Ethics, or Magna Moralia.
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The project's cloud drive is here, at which you'll find the reading texts, notes, and slideshows.