Publisher: Loeb Classical Library | ISBN: 0674992911 | edition 1932 | PDF | 720 pages | 17,7 mb
The past few years have seen a spate of new translations of classic texts in philosophy, in part because of more complete
texts on which to base the translations and in part because of a desire to render the texts in a more contemporary English. Simpson (classics and philosophy, CUNY) has produced a fresh and lively translation that is perhaps more logically ordered. He makes a strong case for rearranging the standard order of the books of the Politics to provide a sequence more in keeping with Aristotle's intentions, positioning Books 7 and 8 to follow Book 3. The text begins with a translation of Book 10, Chapter 9 of the Nicomachean Ethics, which Simpson argues is a precursor to the Politics. The past few years have seen a spate of new translations of classic texts in philosophy, in part because of more complete