Aristotle's Science of the Best Regime

Mary P. Nichols and Robert C. Bartlett

American Political Science Review, 1995, vol. 89, issue 1, 152-160

Abstract: In this Controversy, Mary Nichols and Robert Bartlett both enlist Aristotle in support of a liberal politics. Nichols finds that the Aristotle analyzed by Bartlett in his remarks in this Review in 1994 leads us away from politics into a life of perfect contemplation. The real Aristotle, she avers, by calling attention to the “limits of reason,” leaves room for the gods, personal freedom, and shared power. Bartlett responds that the life of contemplative reflection that Aristotle praises is the foundation of knowledge of virtue, without which freedom is license, democracy, dangerous.

Date: 1995
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