Aristotle: The Politics and the Constitution of Athens (Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought) Revised - Student Edition

This book is Aristotle's response to Plato's book, The Republic. If you enjoy political theory, this is a really great book. Aristotle's arguments still are the cornerstone of democratic theory.

This book explains Aristotle's political philosophy in an easily to understand but comprehensive way.

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This is an unabridged text of this important piece of literature. If you want to read it out of curiosity, I recommend the abridged versions, any of them, over an unabridged version. If you're a Philosophy or Pre-Law major in school, or just like to read old English dialogue, which is literally weight lifting for the brain, then get this book and the others in the series

These Cambridge editions are, in many cases, the defacto definitive editions, and this is no exception. As far as the text itself...what can I say that hasn't been said before? It's Aristotle for goodness sake! There is a reason he was referred to simply as "the Philosophe"r throughout the Middle Ages.This text, however, is not a speculative philosophical work. This is an examination of the Athenian constitution and its developmental history. It should not be surprising that as one reads this, you constantly find yourself marveling as how relevant it is as a lens though which to view political-cultural institutions of any age. And as classical Athens is credited with being among the first democracies, and the US is often credited with being among the most successful or dynamic democracies, this text is particularly insightful for any student of the American experience.

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The two stars are for Aristotle. The Kindle version gets one. The one star is because the page numbers match up with that of the paper book, since that might be important for some, and is an inherent weakness in kindle editions. Everything else about this eBook gets negative stars.Despite the description YOU CANNOT HIGHLIGHT OR SEARCH IN THIS EDITION. This is because the eBook is a series of photocopies of the pages of the book. They couldn't even take the time to scan the text. In addition to this, the file is so big scrolling is slow, clunky and intermittently responsive on my laptop. Heaven forbid I ever try on a smaller device.I discovered you can draw a clear box with highlight-colored lines, but the lines are so thick they effectively highlight the line above and below the one you want to highlight. This is helpful for those who want to "highlight" entire paragraphs, but it makes selecting individual lines difficult, and single words almost impossible. It's so clumsy and time-consuming, it reminds me of MS-DOS's first attempt to incorporate mouse movement into specific programs. Ugh.In a word, this version represents all that is wrong with eBooks, with none of the positives. If you ever join a debate group, and are tasked with proving that eBooks are useless, frustrating, and will make you stupid, this book is your ticket to victory.

As far as I can tell, this is a now outdated translation, with often awkward or archaic diction. I think part of the problem is that the translation is essentially Jowett's (so old it is now available in the public domain), but was reprinted for the series. It's not all turn of the century English; there are some brighter moments, but you had best look elsewhere for a more modern translation.