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Does anyone here know of a good account of the history of the translation of Aristotle's Politics into English? I am looking for the background of the early translation (from Renaissance to the...
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What are the differences in key terms in Morbeke's translation of the Politics to that of Bruni's translation in relation to key concepts that are at play in Aristotle's Politics? Could you also...
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One one looks at Polybius's treatment of revolutions in Book 8 of his History, it looks as if he never read Aristotle's Politics book 5. In fact Polybius's account of the cycle of politeia looks...
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Lately in his recent works Pierre Manent, the French political theorist and friend of Bloom and others of Strauss students, points to the concept of the political form. This is especially so in...
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This is something I have been pondering for a while. Leonardo Bruni (1370–1444) in his rather popular translation of Aristotle's Politics choose to use societas civilis as the preferred...
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