Aristotle

Delba Winthrop (1945–2006) was a lec­turer at the Harvard Extension School and director of the Program on Constitutional Government. With Harvey C. Mansfield, she was editor and translator of Alexis de Tocqueville’s Democracy in America, also published by the University of Chicago Press. Harvey C. Mansfield is the William R. Kenan Jr. Professor of Government at Harvard University and the author of sever­al books, including Machiavelli’s Virtue.

• ForewordINTRODUCTIONONE1. Beginnings (1274b32– 41)2. Citizens (1274b41– 1276b15)3. To Be or Not to Be (1276a6– 1276b15)4. To Be and to Be (1276b16– 1277b32)5. Noncitizens (1277b33– 1278b5)TWO 1. “The Few in Opposition” (1278b6– 1279a21) 2. From a Man’s Point of View (1279a22– 1280a6)3. Ignoble Division (1280a7– 25) 4. The Oligarchic Logos (1280a25– 1281a10) 5. Unreason Is the Reason (1281a11– 39) 6. The Multitude, the Demos, and Free Men (1281a39– 1282b13)THREE1. Political Philosophy (1282b14– 1284a3)2. Hares and Hermaphrodites (1284a3– 1284b34)3. Kings (1284b35– 1286a9)4. The King of Kings (1286a7– 1286b40)5. The King of the Beasts (1287a1– 1288b6)Appendix 1: A Note on the TranslationAppendix 2: Translation of Aristotle’s Politics, Book IIINotesBibliographyIndex

“Winthrop’s original and provocative work is much more than a meditation on Aristotle’s complex view of democracy. Because Winthrop reads Aristotle’s Politics as much for its ontological implications as for its political lessons, she wrestles with questions concerning the status of forms and wholes for Aristotle, the possibility of human freedom in a natural world governed by necessity, and the relationship between political science and natural science. This fascinating study challenges readers to look at the Politics in a dramatically new way.”