Plato, Aristotle, and the Purpose of Politics

In this book, Kevin M. Cherry compares the views of Plato and Aristotle about the practice, study and, above all, the purpose of politics. The first scholar to place Aristotle''s Politics in sustained dialogue with Plato''s Statesman, Cherry argues that Aristotle rejects the view of politics advanced by Plato''s Eleatic Stranger, contrasting them on topics such as the proper categorization of regi...