Reviews for Politics

The average rating for Politics based on 2 reviews is 4.5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2017-10-03 00:00:00 Dean Mathews All people desire the Good. So says Aristotle. Yes, EVERYTHING works for the Good. What Good, though? Well, he says, their OWN version of Good! And THAT's why all politicians are so inherently different - AND why some get on our nerves. And WE'VE all got different preconceptions - ourselves! You see, he learned from his teacher, Plato, that the Good is naturally in our human subconscious - and is also an Ideal - ABOVE us! Want a friendly tip? When you're finished browsing through the latest headlines screaming blue murder over political dirty double dealings, browse through THIS! It'll open the windows of your mind and let in some fresh air... Meet the vigorous, affable philosopher Aristotle, as he jostles through the Polis Agora, bumping into old friends, cheerfully waving to others in the distance, and stopping to join his buddies in friendly talk about the government's latest projects. Some of his interlocutors may gripe that it's just more of the same old tired routine. Not Aristotle! His well-thought out rebuttal to these naysayers would have been a detailed and densely populated paysage moralisé of plain, optimistic good sense. For Aristotle, bless his soul, always ac-cen-tu-at-ed the Positive! His jauntiness and well-mannered public ease Radiated Good Health. And bonhomie too... He was a good man. He knew what goodness was: because he avoided evil. And he also had a nifty way to get us out of any bad moods - with his twin teaching of ens and potens. For if a person isn't acting all too nicely now, he always has the potentiality to be Good inside himself! And everything changes. Does that remind you a bit of The Power of Positive Thinking? Maybe, but WHERE did this great thinker get his eternal Optimism and Presence of Mind? You know, there are TWO answers to that question: one simple, the other complex. The simple answer is that Aristotle, through constantly meditating on the Good, gradually let it saturate his Entire Awareness. The difficult answer is the old Zen Koan, to wit, "WHO is this little man who goes in and comes out of your mouth several times a day?" Well the answer, of course is... your Self - in its private, and its public personas. When we open our mouths, we escape into an empty public space. We're suddenly in the Political Centre Stage. We risk pride, anger, embarrassment - and possible Collapse of this little travelling man, our Self. Aristotle, you see, by fully imbuing himself with the Goodness of Pure Being, had made himself from two separate selves, into One Whole - and the Original - Self! Well, that was Aristotle for you - 2,500 years BEFORE Norman Vincent Peale was even born! And maybe you can't make a big social splash that way. But your enemies will be few and far between if you practice it! And so we can easily imagine Aristotle put a LOT of otherwise wary people at their ease. But that's not the picture we've been given of him... No - for we're accustomed to think of him as totally above and beyond us - a gloomy, tendentious old soul who must always remain the privileged property of persnickety professors. But he's not. He will always be a fresh summer breeze refreshing our callous cynicism! And he will sweep all our dreary snap political judgments right off the table. And begin right back at the beginning with a Level Playing Field. So, there ARE indeed wise, positive-minded thinkers who point us to the straight and narrow road to truth. Like Aristotle, who believed that Good Politicians really DO exist.

Review # 2 was written on 2020-04-11 00:00:00 Matthew Connor Πολιτικά = Politics, Aristotle Aristotle's Politics is divided into eight books which are each further divided into chapters. Citations of this work, as with the rest of the works of Aristotle. In the first book, Aristotle discusses the city (polis) or as he likes to call it a "political association". He states that this city and other cities like it are designed and created with the purpose of achieving happiness or something good. Book II examines various views concerning the two different kinds of virtues. These two virtues would be both the intellectual and moral virtues. The difference between these two kinds of virtues would be that a moral virtue is one that is learned by habit and the repetition of it while an intellectual virtue is one that has been taught or instructed to you. For us to be virtuous we must train ourselves and act accordingly as we all are born with the potential to be morally virtuous. ... تاریخ نخستین خوانش سال 1972 میلادی عنوان: ارس‍طو و س‍ی‍اس‍ت‌؛ نویسنده: ارسطو؛ مترجم: ح‍م‍ی‍د ع‍ن‍ای‍ت‌؛ تهران، نیل؛ 1337؛ در 318ص؛ ت‍ه‍ران‌ امیر کبیر، کتابهای جیبی‏‫، چاپ دوم 1349؛ در 381ص؛ چاپ سوم 1358؛ در 320ص؛ چاپ چهارم 1364؛ چاپ هفتم 1393؛ شابک 9789643031107؛موضوع: مدینه ی فاضله از نویسندگان یونانی سده 4پیش از میلاد سیاست عنوان کتابی از ارسطو است. این کتاب را می‌توان در شش بخش شامل هشت کتاب در نظر گرفت؛ بخش اول شامل کتاب اول درباره خانواده؛ بخش دوم شامل کتاب دوم درباره نظرات افلاطون و نقد حکومت‌های اسپارت و کرت و کارتاژ؛ بخش سوم شامل کتاب سوم درباره قانون اساسی؛ بخش چهارم شامل کتاب‌های چهارم و پنجم درباره دموکراسی جمهوری و علل انقلاب‌ها در حکومت‌ها؛ بخش پنجم شامل کتاب ششم درباره روش تشکیل دموکراسی‌ها و پایداری آنها؛ بخش ششم شامل کتاب‌های هفتم و هشتم درباره حکومت کمال مطلوب است؛ در پیش گفتار کتاب سیاست اشاره به ناپیوستگی مطالب آن شده‌ است. جناب «حمید عنایت» این کتاب را همانند کتاب مثنوی معنوی مولانا دانسته چون ارسطو کتاب سیاست را از گفتارهای گوناگونی فراهم کرده و به نظر مترجم قصد او گردآوردن آنها در یک مجموعه نبوده‌ است؛ جناب «حمید عنایت» در پیش گفتار کتاب سیاست؛ اهمیت آن را در دو مورد می‌دانند: یکی آنکه روح فلسفه پیشرو زمان ارسطو را منعکس می‌کند؛ و دیگر آنکه سرچشمه ی اصلی اندیشه‌ هایی است که تا پایان سده های میانی بر فلسفه ی سیاسی غرب اثر گذاشته است ارسطو اساس خانواده را طبق تقسیم بندی روابط مردم با هم قرار داده و قدرت را عامل اصلی این تقسیم بندی می‌داند؛ او خواسته را بخشی از خانواده می‌داند؛ و هنر به دست آوردن خواسته دیگری در خانواده را تدبیر منزل می‌داند؛ ارسطو فرقی بین روابط قدرت در حکومت و خانواده نمی‌بیند؛ او هر دو را بر اساس روابط قدرت یکسان بررسی کرده‌ است؛ او کسی را که در یک شهر از احترام و مناصب حکومت بی بهره باشد، همچون بیگانه‌ ای می‌داند که در آن سکونت اختیار کرده‌ است؛ ارسطو داوری چند دادرس را که بر حکومت قانون متفق اند بهتر از داوری یک دادرس می‌داند؛ او بقای دموکراسی را به کثرت شهروندان وابسته می‌داند؛ او سعادت را در درست زیستن می‌داند؛ او کار را در زندگی فقط محدود به ارتباط با دیگران نمی‌داند؛ او تفکراتی را که برای نفس تفکر و به هدف درست زیستن صورت می‌گیرند نوعی کار به شمار می‌آورد؛ ارسطو کسانی را در زمره جمعیت کشور می‌داند که جزء گسست ناپذیر آن باشند؛ و عظمت کشور را به فزونی شمار اینگونه مردمان وابسته می‌داند؛ ارسطو زیبایی را از بزرگی و شماره می‌داند؛ و از نظر او آن کشوری را می‌توان کاملتر از کشورهای دیگر شمرد؛ که عظمت را با شماره محدود، و متعادل جمعیت توام داشته باشد، و نیز اندازه ی یک کشور همانند اندازه چیزهای دیگر حدی دارد؛ هرچه بیش از اندازه بزرگ یا کوچک باشد، اثر خود را از دست می‌دهد، و در برخی موارد ماهیتش یکسره دگرگون می‌شود؛ او اداره ی جنگ را بر جمعیت زیاد مردم دشوار می‌داند؛ از نظر ارسطو قانونگذار باید در پی پروراندن افراد شریف باشد و راه رسیدن به این هدف را بجوید؛ تاریخ بهنگام رسانی 06/05/1399هجری خورشیدی؛ ا. شربیانی