Good evening and thank you for joining me for another boring books for bedtime.

I hope tonight selection provides all the boredom your busy brain needs to quiet down and let you get some sleep.

So find a comfortable spot.

Adjust your volume,

take a nice deep breath in,

let it out slowly,

and off we go.

Tonight we're taking a wander back 2,000 years to ancient Greece with the politics a treatise on government by Aristotle

translated from the Greek by William Ellis AM, first published in 1912 by J.M. by J.M. Denton Sons Limited, London and Toronto.

Let's begin.

Introduction

The Politics of Aristotle is the second part of a treatise, of which the ethics is the first part.

It looks back to the ethics, as the ethics looks forward to the politics. For Aristotle did not

separate as we are inclined to do the spheres of the statesman and the moralist.

In the ethics, he has described the character necessary for the good life,

but that life is for him, essentially to be lived in society.

And when in the last chapters of the ethics, he comes to the practical application of his inquiries.

That finds expression not in moral exhortations addressed to the individual,

but in a description of the legislative opportunities of the statesman,

it is the legislators task to frame a society which shall make the good life possible.

Politics for Aristotle is not a struggle between individuals or classes for power, nor a device for getting done such elementary tasks as the

maintenance of order and security without two great encroachments on individual liberty.

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