Justice and Constitution: Aristotle’s Political Science and the Intelligibility of History (Arist. "EN", V, 1134a 25-1135a 8)
- Elisabetta Poddighe University of Cagliari
Abstract
In NE Book V Aristotle recognizes the condition required for the implementation of a particular kind of justice, namely, political justice (politikon dikaion): that condition is a form of government (politeia). Central to the point of Aristotle’s comparising politeia and political justice is the intelligibility of political justice (and of politeia): political justice becomes intelligible in that it departs from absolute justice, in the same way as forms of government deviate from the ideal one i.e. the best form.
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