Aristotle's systematic study of constitutions and the state as natural to man. A founding text of political science.
Books mentioned in Politics (2)
The Republic by Plato: “So that when Socrates, in Plato's Republic, says that a city is necessarily composed of four sorts of people, he speaks elegantly but not correctly, and these are, according to him, weavers, husbandmen, shoe-makers, and builders; he then adds, as if these were not sufficient, smiths, herdsmen for…”
Laws by Plato: “As to his book of Laws, laws are the principal thing which that contains, for he has there said but little concerning government”
Books that mention Politics (5)
Zuleika Dobson by Max Beerbohm: ““You have been to a lecture?” “Aristotle’s Politics,” nodded Noaks”
Justice: What's the Right Thing to Do? by Michael J. Sandel: “'We thus see that the polis exists by nature and that it is prior to the individual,' he writes in Book I of The Politics.”
Contact by Carl Sagan: Chapter epigraph: "—ARISTOTLE The Politics Book 2, Chapter 5"
Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes: “I know that Aristotle in the first booke of his Politiques, for a foundation of his doctrine, maketh men by Nature, some more worthy to Command, meaning the wiser sort (such as he thought himselfe to be for his Philosophy;) others to Serve…”
The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton: “Aristotle, Polit. lib. 3, cap. 4, calls Commune bonum,”