Aristotle's Politics is a continuation of his Nicomachean Ethics, whose investigation of what is the supreme good for a human being he conceives as "a sort of political science", politike tis (I.2.1094b11). ... By "the collected political systems" (Nicomachean Ethics X.9.1181b17), Aristotle means a collection of constitutional histories of 158 Greek city-states which Aristotle had prepared as a basis for his lectures on politics; by comparison, the United Nations currently recognizes only 174 independent nation-states on earth today. ... At any rate, Aristotle had a very large empirical d...

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Two great philosophers in history, John Stuart Mill and Aristotle created moral theories in an attempt to structuralize this thing called happiness. ... Next, in Aristotle's Nichomachean Ethics, happiness takes a different idea as he explains his theory. ... By "the soul," Aristotle refers to the rationally calculating part of the soul that has reason, apart from the non-rational part of the soul. ... For example, money can be chosen as a means for happiness, or enjoyment as a means for pleasure, or honor as a means for politics. Although Aristotle agrees that individuals need a...

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