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# 4.7/5 customer rating Classic philosophical text Free delivery available Aristotle's "Politics": Second Edition

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Review: Readers of Aristotle in English now have three very serviceable translations of the Politics - this second edition by Carnes Lord, Joe Sachs, and Peter L. Phillips Simpson. Barker's older Oxford translation should also be mentioned although it is not as literal as the others. They all have useful features apart from the translation itself to recommend them over say the Penguin translation. On balance, I would prefer Lord's second edition as he has tightened up translations throughout the work to make them more strictly literal beginning with "community" in place of "partnership" in the very first sentence of the book. Further, he has a very interesting introduction, excellent footnotes and glossary. It has to be said that both Sachs and Simpson have very useful analytical outlines and notes as well. Simpson's English is the most pleasant to read and has student friendly chapter headings and chapter introductions albeit non-authorial of course. The format of Carnes Lord's second edition has been made uniform to its University of Chicago Press twin "Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics" translated by Robert Bartlett and Susan Collins but, unlike the later, it is without an interpretative essay which would have been most welcome. The natural appendix to the Politics is the Poetics ably translated by Seth Benardete and Michael Davis as "Aristotle On Poetics" under St. Augustine's Press. As of 2013, all three are highly recommendable as the best scholarly translations of these three works. One can only hope some enterprising scholar will now provide avid Aristotelians with a literal translation of Aristotle's "Rhetoric" to complete the series of his "philosophy of things human". [N.B.: This has now been done with Robert C. Bartlett's translation, "Aristotle's Art of Rhetoric".] As an addendum, the student of "Aristotle's Politics" would find in "Aristotle's Teaching in the Politics" by Thomas Pangle a good companion interpretation.
Review: Excellent.

## Technical Specifications

| Specification | Value |
|---------------|-------|
| Best Sellers Rank | 595,703 in Books ( See Top 100 in Books ) 12,481 in Philosophy (Books) 59,780 in History (Books) |
| Customer reviews | 4.7 4.7 out of 5 stars (390) |
| Dimensions  | 15.24 x 2.01 x 22.86 cm |
| Edition  | 2nd |
| ISBN-10  | 0226921840 |
| ISBN-13  | 978-0226921846 |
| Item weight  | 1.05 kg |
| Language  | English |
| Print length  | 316 pages |
| Publication date  | 4 Mar. 2013 |
| Publisher  | University of Chicago Press |

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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Review
*by A***R on 8 April 2013*

Readers of Aristotle in English now have three very serviceable translations of the Politics - this second edition by Carnes Lord, Joe Sachs, and Peter L. Phillips Simpson. Barker's older Oxford translation should also be mentioned although it is not as literal as the others. They all have useful features apart from the translation itself to recommend them over say the Penguin translation. On balance, I would prefer Lord's second edition as he has tightened up translations throughout the work to make them more strictly literal beginning with "community" in place of "partnership" in the very first sentence of the book. Further, he has a very interesting introduction, excellent footnotes and glossary. It has to be said that both Sachs and Simpson have very useful analytical outlines and notes as well. Simpson's English is the most pleasant to read and has student friendly chapter headings and chapter introductions albeit non-authorial of course. The format of Carnes Lord's second edition has been made uniform to its University of Chicago Press twin "Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics" translated by Robert Bartlett and Susan Collins but, unlike the later, it is without an interpretative essay which would have been most welcome. The natural appendix to the Politics is the Poetics ably translated by Seth Benardete and Michael Davis as "Aristotle On Poetics" under St. Augustine's Press. As of 2013, all three are highly recommendable as the best scholarly translations of these three works. One can only hope some enterprising scholar will now provide avid Aristotelians with a literal translation of Aristotle's "Rhetoric" to complete the series of his "philosophy of things human". [N.B.: This has now been done with Robert C. Bartlett's translation, "Aristotle's Art of Rhetoric".] As an addendum, the student of "Aristotle's Politics" would find in "Aristotle's Teaching in the Politics" by Thomas Pangle a good companion interpretation.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Review
*by C***Y on 20 February 2025*

Excellent.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Review
*by R***N on 26 January 2020*

The typeface is a bit small but I suppose that were it otherwise the book would be inconveniently bulky. The item was a gift for someone else; he thinks the editor/translator have done a good job.

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