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In the first book, Aristotle discusses the origin of the state and its composition as political community (koinonia politike).
Capsule Summaries of the Great Books of the Western World Jonathan Aquino 2009
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In the first book, Aristotle discusses the origin of the state and its composition as political community (koinonia politike).
Archive 2009-03-01 Jonathan Aquino 2009
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I typically use the word politics to mean roughly what Aristotle meant by it or rather, meant by its Greek cognate, politike — that is, the art or science of living together as a community.
The grammar of war 2009
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Post-left thought is an exercise in ressentiment unhinged from politics in the Aristotelian sense of politike, or the 'art of the common life.'
Archive 2008-08-01 2008
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And does such a document not reinforce the failed politike grounded in the modern nation-state?
Archive 2008-07-27 papabear 2008
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Which she repenting, and coveting to be rid of them both, a matter not easie to be done: she wittily devised the onely meanes, namely, to move such a motion to them, as neither would willingly undertake, yet within the compasse of possibility; but they failing in the performance, shee might have the more honest occasion, to bee free from all further mollestation by them, and her politike intention was thus projected.
The Decameron 2004
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Nemajú organizáciami pôsobiacimi v spoločnosti a politike.
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In battayle, and otherwise wher oughte is to be done, very politike and experte.
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He was of a meane stature, very wise and politike, and passing serious and graue in all his demeanour.
The long and wonderful voyage of Frier Iohn de Plano Carpini 2004
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Or in that common wealth, the politike lawes whereof do also enioyne a man that is taken in carnall copulation with the mother, daughter, or sister, by the sonne, father, or brother, to redeeme his life with the one halfe of that which he oaght to haue payed, if he had shed the innocent bloud of the sayd party?
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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