Aristotle (b. 384 - d. 322 BC), was a Greek philosopher, logician, and scientist. Along with his teacher Plato, Aristotle is generally regarded as one of the most influential ancient thinkers in a number of philosophical fields, including political theory. Aristotle was born in Stagira in northern Greece, and his father was a court physician to the king of Macedon. As a young man he studied in Plato's Academy in Athens. After Plato's death he left Athens …showed first 75 words of 4307 total…

…showed last 75 words of 4307 total…of Aristotle's Politics (Savage, Md., 1992). * Günther Patzig, ed., Aristoteles' Politik (Göttingen, 1990). * Stephen G. Salkever, Finding the Mean: Theory and Practice in Aristotelian Political Philosophy (Princeton, 1990). * Peter Simpson, A Philosophical Commentary on the Politics of Aristotle (Chapel Hill, 1998). * Judith A. Swanson, The Public and the Private in Aristotle's Political Philosophy (Ithaca, 1991). * Bernard Yack, The Problems of a Political Animal: Community, Justice, and Conflict in Aristotelian Political Thought (Berkeley, 1993).