On Aristotle: Saving Politics from Philosophy

by Alan Ryan

Book Overview

In On Aristotle: Saving Politics from Philosophy, Alan Ryan examines Plato's most famous student and sharpest critic, whose writing has helped shape over two millennia of Western philosophy, science, and religion. The first thinker to posit that a society should be ruled by laws and not men, Aristotle was born in Stagira, Macedon, in 384 BCE. He would go on to join Plato's Academy and eventually become tutor to Alexander the Great. During his lifetime...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 087140706X
• ISBN13: 9780871407061
• Release Date: November 2013
• Publisher: Liveright Publishing Corporation
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 4.8" x 7.6"