Aristotle’s public theorizing about political practice is a highly self-conscious form of political practice, of intervention in political life. We cannot learn the most important lessons the philosopher seeks to teach, about both political theory and political practice, and about the fraught relation between theory and practice, unless we maintain a constant attentiveness to the politic and exemplary manner in which he reaches out to, and enters into dialogue with, potential students—who he knows to be of varying abilities and needs, and embedded in or contending with divergent and clashing regime-contexts.
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Thomas L. Pangle, Aristotle’s Teaching in the Politics
@belacqui-pro-quo Aristotle is a Philosopher-King! We are embedded in a regime-context!
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