Reflections On Aristotle?S Politics

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Dive into a collection of insightful essays by Mogens Herman Hansen that explore Aristotle's Politics in fresh and thought-provoking ways. These writings tackle longstanding debates and overlooked topics that deepen our understanding of Aristotle’s political philosophy.

Exploring key themes in Aristotle’s political thought through revised and expanded essays.

This volume brings together new, updated, and expanded articles by renowned classical scholar Mogens Herman Hansen, focusing on Aristotle’s Politics. Hansen revisits old controversies and highlights neglected issues, shedding new light on crucial topics such as Aristotle’s concept of democratic freedom and political freedom as an intrinsic value.

The collection also examines Aristotle’s notable silence regarding the many federal states in the Hellenic polis world of his time. It explores the sixfold classification of constitutions alongside an alternative framework that categorizes all constitutions as democracies, oligarchies, or mixed forms of both.

In the final essay, Hansen reveals Aristotle’s positive stance on mixed democratic forms, especially an indirect democracy where the people’s role is limited to electing magistrates and holding them accountable, while the actual political decisions rest with those elected officials.

By compiling these essays into one volume, Hansen’s valuable insights become more accessible to students, scholars, and anyone interested in Aristotle’s political ideas.

Mogens Herman Hansen, emeritus reader in Ancient Greek at the University of Copenhagen and affiliated with The Royal Library in Copenhagen, is a leading expert on Athenian democracy and the Greek City-State. He is a member of both the British Academy and the Danish Academy for Sciences and Letters, and he served as Director of The Copenhagen Polis Centre from 1993 to 2005.

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