Curtis N. Johnson 
Philosophy and Politics in Aristotle’s Politics 

Johnson argues that Aristotle’s Politics needs to be understood as a ‘two-layered’ treatise – the first being Aristotle’s political theory, and the second as a set of questions for statesmen and politicians. Employing this model, the book sets about to provide a reconceptualization of Politics as a multi-layered, canonical work.

Table of Content

Table of Contents List of Abbreviations and Note on Text Preface Acknowledgements Introduction: Philosophy and Politics in Aristotle’s Politics 1. Aristotle’s Audiences 2. Politics Book I 3. Aristotle’s Method in the Politics 4.The Essential Nature of the State and Specific Identities in Aristotle’s Politics 5. Evaluating the Goodness of Regimes 6. Why Constitutions Differ: Causation in the Politics 7. The Citizen and the Sovereign Office in the Politics 8. Polity and the Middle Regime in the Politics 9. The ‘Best State Absolutely’ Bibliography

About the author

Curtis Johnson is Robert B. Pamplin Jr. Professor of Government at Lewis and Clark College in Portland, Oregon, USA. He is the author of Aristotle’s Theory of the State (1990), Socrates and the Immoralists (2005), and Darwin’s Dice (2014). He has published many articles and chapters on Plato, Aristotle, Darwin, and the history of science.