Aristotle: the necessary and the beautiful in the city "according to our wishes"

被引:1
作者
Jaulin, Annick [1 ]
机构
[1] Univ Paris 1 Pantheon Sorbonne, Paris, France
来源
POLIS | 2019年 / 36卷 / 01期
关键词
necessity; good; excellence; constitution; political capacity;
D O I
10.1163/20512996-12340197
中图分类号
I [文学];
学科分类号
05 ;
摘要
What is the criterion for distinguishing between the excellence of the excellent constitution in Politics VII and the excellence of the other excellent constitutions ? Every constitution includes in its composition necessity and good. Yet, unlike what happens in the other excellent constitutions, in the best constitution of Politics VII there is a convergence, not an opposition, between necessity and goodness. This point is confirmed by a change in the meaning of the word (1328b13-14). In the constitution delineated in Book VII, ultimately matter and form are identical. Both the convergence between necessity and good and the fact that every citizen should be a good man or a 'maker of virtue' lead to equate the excellent constitution with the completed form of political capacity. Hence, the relationship between is similar to the relationship between and
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