| Abstrakt: |
For several decades, most philosophical studies of Aristotle's Politics have treated the work as more or less unified in substance, if not in form. Recently, however, a challenge to this emerging consensus has been raised by Mogens Herman Hansen, who maintains that the Politics in fact contains two fundamentally incompatible theories of constitutions ( politeiai) Despite raising a number of legitimate interpretive problems, this challenge has gone unanswered by Aristotelian scholars. This paper considers Hansen's argument and seeks to resolve the puzzles it raises. Answering Hansen's challenge illuminates Aristotle's theory of constitutions and its place in his broader political theory. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
