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标题：The State and Community in Aristotle’s Politics
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作者：Fred D. Miller Jr
期刊名称：Reason Papers : A Journal of Interdisciplinary Normative Studies
印刷版ISSN：0363-1893
出版年度：1974
卷号：1
出版社：Reason Papers
摘要：T HE term 'polis', like most key terms in Aristotle's philosophical writings, is used in different senses. The full significance of this fact-observed by Aristotle himself at Politics III,3, 1~76az3-24-has not been fully appreciated by Aristotle or his later commentators. Although it is a commonplace that the concept of the polis does not involve a clearcut distinction between the state and the community, not much use has been made of this in unraveling the tangled skein of Aristotle's arglLrr?rnt, especial!y in Book III of the Politics. 1 wiii rry ro begin the unraveling here. First, I shall argue that when Aristotle presents a justification of the polis in Book I, he is preoccupied with a certain sort of community. In the opening chapters of Book 111, he is engaged in an analysis of the state. But in the later chapters of Book 111, the concerns of social philosophy and of political philosophy become confused with each other. This is especially evident in Aristotle's criticisms of an ancient Greek version of libertarianism.