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Aristotelian commentary

Commentary on Aristotle's Politics

An incomplete commentary on Aristotle's account of the city, citizenship, regimes, and political life.

Datierung

1271-1272, incomplete

Warum es wichtig ist

It illuminates Aquinas's view that political community is natural and ordered to the common good.

Wie man es liest

  1. 1Read it with De regno and the law treatise.
  2. 2Watch how household, city, and virtue relate.
  3. 3Notice where the incomplete text leaves questions open.