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    <body><![CDATA[I loved reading this with the question of what is the ideal society and how do you obtain happiness? It was interesting to see Aristotles answers to these questions. I also enjoyed seeing how he argues his idea that happiness is the absence of pain and that money is in charge of getting rid of pain....<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/14181086">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Sin duda, una pieza clave de la teoría política; muchas de las ideas planteadas aquí por Aristóteles resuenan hasta nuestros días. <br/>   Uno al leer, a la vez que comparte muchas cosas, se molesta por otras (lo que es inevitable: pertenecemos a otra cultura) como la justificación de la escl...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/56916764">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[The book keeps on giving. Someone asked me the other day (a dean of a certain law school, which shall be unnamed) in semi-jest what Aristotle's politics is, that is, is Aristotle a Democrat or Republican? Who would Aristotle vote for in '08?   This is a work of political philosophy, not polemic, so ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/27946559">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I can't give a rating to Aristotle's Politics.<br/><br/>That being said, Aristotle's political philosophy runs on a horrendously fallacious naturalistic track, leading him to bizarre conclusions about...everything.<br/><br/>It was perhaps useful as a way of solidifying my conceptions of the whee...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/42039255">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I really did not like having to read this book for a university course, because I disagreed with everything that wasn't too vague to disagree with.  However, Aristotle is so methodical, and covers all of the bases so well, that even when I disliked what he was saying, I was thinking about politics i...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/57308427">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[The third and fourth books of Aristotle's Politics discuss the fundamental questions in political philosophy: the nature of citizenship, the purpose of the state, the role of law, the merits of various constitutions.  Richard Robinson's volume was the first to be published in the Clarendon Aristotle Series, and it remains a model of its kind - a lucid and provocative Introduction, an accurate but readable translation, and concise and critical notes.  For this reissue, David Keyt has written a Supplementary Essay, in which he surveys and develops some recent ideas on the main themes of Politics III and IV.  He also provides an up-to-date bibliography.]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[Yes, this can be very dry at times (for instance, his discussion of the reasons for which communal meals are a bad idea). Still, worth reading for the analyses of the various constitutions in Books III and IV alone; all in all, it's indispensable.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Unfortunately the fourth generation translation is kind of shoddy, but for his time Ari's ideas are ideal.  Of course, for the free world today, they'd be ludicrous. ]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I must have been a fragile young college spongue when I read this cause I just couldnt get enough.  I felt like it was changing me forever.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Lots of stuff about politics. And how little our ideas about politics have changed in 2300 years.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Another of my favorite political theory books.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Selections.]]></body>
    
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