How to read it
- 1Read it with De regno and the law treatise.
- 2Watch how household, city, and virtue relate.
- 3Notice where the incomplete text leaves questions open.
Aristotelian commentary
Commentary on Aristotle's Politics
An incomplete commentary on Aristotle's account of the city, citizenship, regimes, and political life.
Date
1271-1272, incomplete
Why it matters
It illuminates Aquinas's view that political community is natural and ordered to the common good.