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id: 26095
title: The Athenian Constitution
author: Aristotle
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  The elections to the various offices Solon enacted should be by lot, nine Archons; whereas in early times the Council of Areopagus summoned Council of Five Hundred, and others to the Assembly and the law-courts. Council, holding office for a year, consisting of men over thirty years law-courts if the Council declare the charge proved. point of fact the person on whom the lot falls holds the office even done by a jury in the law-courts appointed by lot, since the Council Council, to receive two obols a day from the state for their support. charge the Eleven bring the case before the law-courts; if the arbitrations to the persons belonging to that year, casting lots to Of the magistrates elected by lot, in former times some including the The juries for the law-courts are chosen by lot by the nine Archons, the law, the jurors receive their pay in the order assigned by the lot.


id: 2412
title: The Categories
author: Aristotle
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  both cases: for if a man should state in what sense each is an animal, quality, relation, place, time, position, state, action, or affection. sense those things are called substances within which, as species, the as a primary substance is; the words ''man'', ''animal'', are predicable of Yet species and genus do not merely indicate quality, like the term contrary of any primary substance, such as the individual man or that substances admit contrary qualities. be said to be capable of admitting contrary qualities. contrary qualities; for a substance admits within itself either disease will come about that the same subject can admit contrary qualities at though substance is capable of admitting contrary qualities, yet no one appear to be true in all cases that correlatives come into existence those things only are properly called relative in the case of which fact that the things which in virtue of these qualities are said to be


id: 1974
title: The Poetics of Aristotle
author: Aristotle
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  XVI (Plot continued.) Recognition: its various kinds, with examples. XXIV (Epic Poetry continued.) Further points of agreement with Tragedy. same kind as Homer--for both imitate higher types of character; from Epic poetry agrees with Tragedy in so far as it is an imitation in verse action: for by plot I here mean the arrangement of the incidents. elements as well as Character, Plot, Diction, Song, and Thought. Now, according to our definition, Tragedy is an imitation of an action But again, Tragedy is an imitation not only of a complete action, but of But again, Tragedy is an imitation not only of a complete action, but of his plots; and by what means the specific effect of Tragedy will be Concerning Tragedy and imitation by means of action this may suffice. Again, Epic poetry must have as many kinds as Tragedy: it must be


id: 6762
title: Politics: A Treatise on Government
author: Aristotle
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  If the state is the organisation of men seeking a common good, power and the proper form of government when there is in the state one man of men have common aspirations, but government, and political power, the contrary to those things which good laws ought to establish, and which is established in any state: thus in a democracy the supreme power is states is different, and we shall find the same thing hold good in power for the common good, such states are well governed; but when the large govern for the public good, it is called a state; which is also virtue of a good man and of a citizen in the most perfect government the demagogues: for where a democracy is governed by stated laws there rightly called so; for a state governed by the best men, upon the most city, for every state ought to be governed according to its particular


id: 6763
title: Aristotle on the art of poetry
author: Aristotle
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  _poetes_ mean originally ''making'' and ''maker'', one might translate the writing at a time when the great age of Greek tragedy was long past, and And the words of Aristotle''s definition of tragedy in Chapter VI structure of plot required for a good poem; of the number and nature of of difference in the above arts I term the means of their imitation. Tragedy is essentially an imitation not of persons but of action and form of action; the end for which we live is a certain kind of to speak, of Tragedy is the Plot; and that the Characters come one imitation is always of one thing, so in poetry the story, as an (7) A Case of a Noun or Verb is when the word means ''of or ''to'' a thing, Tragedy, then, is said to be an art So much for Tragedy and Epic poetry--for these two arts in general and


id: 8438
title: The Ethics of Aristotle
author: Aristotle
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  form they are known as virtues (the Greek means simply "goodnesses," the soul, and actions with reason, and of a good man to do these things then the Good of Man comes to be "a working of the Soul in the way of For Moral Virtue has for its object-matter pleasures and pains, because If then this is universally the case, the excellence of Man, i.e. Virtue, must be a state whereby Man comes to be good and whereby he will man who fails of self-control acts from Lust but not from Moral Choice; That it is a mean state, having for its object-matter Pleasures, we have state, having for its object-matter Wealth: I mean, the Liberal man is things which constitute the sphere of the good man''s action. reason of his imperfection of self-control a man acts in a way which man all other good things, not to give him Friends, which are, after


