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Article: Aristotle's Best Regime: A Reading of Aristotle's Politics VII. 1-10.(Review)
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- Utopian Studies
- Article date:
- January 1, 2001
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Jeff Chuska. Aristotle's Best Regime: A Reading of Aristotle's Politics VII. 1-10. Lanham: University Press of America, 2000. xii + 372 pp. $54.50.
ARISTOTLE FIGURES LITTLE in utopian studies. Is this because he starts from the best life, and from it infers the best regime, whereas most utopias start with the best regime and derive the best life from that? In Jeff Chuska's words `Aristotle ... does not begin his study of the best regime with an inquiry into, say, the best form of government, social justice, or the most productive economy.' Rather Aristotle `implicitly denies that a correct study of the good society can be made from such beginnings' (x).
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