Join us for a discussion of Aristotle's Politics

Reading: Aristotle, Politics
Book VI, Chapters 5-8
Thursday, November 19, 6:30-8:30pm in Rice Village. RSVPs will receive directions to the location the week of the meeting.

After the discussion, those interested will adjourn to a nearby restaurant for dinner -- a valuable part of the experience.

Our October conversation covered chapters 1-4 of Book VI, on how to establish and preserve a successful, stable, long-lasting government where the regime is a hybrid combining elements of democracy, oligarchy and aristocracy. He starts with democracies -- how they can establish freedom, equality and justice under varying circumstances, and how this will likely play out in the four types of democracy.

In Chapters 5-8 he will take up how both democracies and oligarchies can be managed -- established and reformed over time to produce long-lasting prosperity where all groups and classes are satisfied and wish to continue the form of govermnent. Easy to say, difficult to achieve, always vulnerable to decay,

Here are 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-IQuKDw9HyBvfm/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/1A3Px3tYlFaXXJwNbwmS9jG9oZsXZnvi/view?usp=sharing