Chapter 1 Introduction

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Preface IX
3. Contents XIX
4. Abbreviations XXIII
5. Part I: Preliminaries
6. Chapter 1 Introduction 1
7. Chapter 2 Critical Prolegomena 39
8. Part II: The Notions of Political Knowledge or Ability (politikē) in Nic. Eth. 1.1
9. Chapter 3 The Teleological Perspective 63
10. Chapter 4 The Concept of the Knowledge of politikē 103
11. Chapter 5 The Human good 123
12. Chapter 6 Making Citizens Good Humans (Nic. Eth. 1.10 –2.1) 136
13. Chapter 7 The Household as Social Setting for Moral Education 152
14. Chapter 8 The Flaws of Statesmen 181
15. Chapter 9 The Transition to Pol. in Nic. Eth. 10.10 198
16. Part III: Pol. 1.1 – 2
17. Chapter 10 “Starting with First Things First”¹: Pol. 1.1. 215
18. Chapter 11 Theoretical Issues in Pol. 1.1 Concerning Governing; The Method Outlined 231
19. Chapter 12 Pol. 1.2. First Associations. The polis. “Human Being” (anthrōpos), and the Standard of Nature 257
20. Chapter 13 The polis Exists by Nature – The Human Being Belongs to the polis by Nature 281
21. Chapter 14 The Absence of Political Thinking in Nic. Eth. 307
22. Bibliography 336
23. Index rerum 342
24. Index nominum 344