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Article: The Politics of Aristotle.
- Article from:
- The Review of Metaphysics
- Article date:
- March 1, 1998
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Simpson, Peter L. Phillips. Me Politics of Aristotle. Translated with introduction, analysis, and notes. Chapel Hill: The University North Carolina Press, 1997. xliv + 274 pp. Paper, $12.95--Among the many translations of Politics currently in print, what makes Simpson's stand out is not a radically new translation, but an audacious new order of its books. The unity of Politics has long been controversial, and most scholars have given up the attempt to find the "right" order of its eight books. However, Simpson claims that books 7 and 8, the so-called speculative books on the best polis, 'were intended by Aristotle to come between books 3 and 4" (p. xx), which is exactly ...