Aristotle’s Politics (Simpson’s Outline rearranged)
Book One: The Primacy of the City
Chapter 1 The Primacy of the City (1252a1)
Chapter 2 The City and Its Parts
The Household (1252a24)
The City (1252b27)
Chapter 3 Household Management and Its Parts (1253b1)
Chapter 4 Slavery
The Definition of the Slave (1253b23)
Chapter 5 Slave and Master by Nature
First Proof (1254a17)
Second Proof (1254b20)
Chapter 6 Slave and Master by Law
Against Those Who Altogether Condemn Slavery (1255a3)
Against Those Who Altogether Approve of Slavery (1255a21)
Summary (1255b4)
Chapter 7 Mastery as Rule and as Science (1255b16)
Chapter 8 Property
The Questions about Business (1256a1)
The Science of Property and Household Management (1256a15)
Chapter 9 The Two Kinds of Business
The Science of Property and Exchange (1256b40)
The Emergence from Exchange of Another Kind of Business (1257a30)
Reason for Its Emergence (1257b40)
Chapter 10 Business as Part of Household Management (1258a19)
Chapter 11 The Practice of Business (1258b9)
Chapter 12 Husband and Wife, Father and Child (1259a37)
Chapter 14 Virtue as the Overall Concern of Household Management
Virtue as the Overall Concern of Household (1259b18)
How to Secure Virtue in the Household (1260a33)
Book Two: Regimes Said by Others to Be Best
Chapter 1 Reason and Order of the Examination (1260b27)
Chapter 2 The Regime of Plato's Republic
Common Wives and Children (1261a10)
Failure to Qualify the Fundamental Supposition about Unity (1261a15)
Chapter 3 Unity as Appealed to in the Proof Is Impossible
The Word "All" (1261b16)
The Word "Mine" (1262a1)
Chapter 4 The Result Is the Opposite of That Intended (1262a25)
Chapter 5 Common Property (1262b37)
Communism in General (1263b7)
The Regime as a Whole
Subjects (1264a11)
Rulers (1264b6)
Chapter 6 The Regime of Plato's Laws
From the Regime of the Republic to That of the Laws (1264b26)
Presuppositions of the Regime (1265a10)
The Regime as a Whole (1265b26)
Chapter 7 The Regime of Phaleas
of
Phaleas' Materialism (1266a31)
Criticism of Phaleas (1266b8)
Chapter 8 The Regime of Hippodamus of
Hippodamus as Man and as Legislator (1267b22)
Criticism of Hippodamus
Citizens and Land (1268a16)
Jurors (1268b4)
The Law about Discovering Something of Advantage to the City (1268b22)
Chapter 9 The Regime of the Spartans
Slavery (1269a29)
Women (1269b13)
Property (1270a11)
Offices
The Ephorate (1270b6)
The Senate (1270b35)
Kings, Common Messes, and Admirals (1271a18)
Supposition of the Regime and Finances (1271a41)
Chapter 10 The Regime of the Cretans
How It Is Like the Regime of the Spartans (1271b20)
How It is Better and Worse than the Regime of the Spartans (1272a12)
Chapter 11 The Regime of the Carthaginians
How It is Better than the Regime of the Spartans and Cretans (1272b24)
Deviations in the Regime of the Carthaginians
Deviations in General (1273a2)
Particular Oligarchic Deviations (1273a21)
Chapter 12 Other Legislators
Framers of Regimes (1273b27)
Framers of Laws (1274b9)
Book Three: Definition and Division of Regime
Chapter 1 Definition of City and Citizen
Priority of Citizen (1274b32)
Preliminary Definition of Citizen (1275a5)
Precise Definition of Citizen and City (1275a34)
Chapter 2 Confirmation of the Definitions (1275b22)
Chapter 3 Resolution of Disputes
As Regard the City (1276a6)
Chapter4 As Regard the Citizen
Virtue of Man and Citizen (1276b16)
That the Virtue of Both Cannot in Every Case Be the Same (1276b31)
That the Virtue of Both Can in Some Cases Be the Same (1277a13)
Chapter 5 Citizenship and Virtue of the Vulgar
Preliminary Discussion (1277b33)
Determinative Answer (1278a13)
Chapter 6 Definition and Division of Regime
Definition of Regime (1278b6)
Division of Regime
First Part of the Division (1278b15)
Chapter 7 Second Part of the Division (1279a22)
Chapter 8 Confirmation of the Division against Certain Difficulties
First Difficulty: Whether the Deviant Regimes Are Rightly Defined (1279b11)
First Part of the Solution: Quantity and Quality in the Definition (1279b34)
Chapter 9 Second Part of the Solution: Despotism in the Definition
That Oligarchic and Democratic Justice Are Partial (1280a7)
Why Oligarchic and Democratic Justice Are Partial (1280a25)
Chapter 10 Second Difficulty: Whether Any of the Regimes is Correct
Statement of the Difficulty (1281a11)
Chapter 11 Partial Solution Specific to Polity
Statement and Illustration of the Solution (1281a39)
Answers to Objections (1281b38)
Chapter 12 Complete Solution General to All Regimes
Who May Justly Make Claims to Rule (1282b14)
Chapter 13 Who May Justly Make Claims to Have Control of Rule
Preliminary Discussion (1283a23)
The Case for Polity (1283b27)
The Case for Aristocracy and Kingship (1284a3)
Chapter 14 Third Difficulty: Whether Kingship is a Correct Regime
The Kinds of Kingship (1284b35)
Chapter 15 Difficulties with Total Kingship
Arguments for Rule of Law Rather Than Rule by One Man (1285b33)
Chapter 16 Arguments against Total Kingship (1287a1)
Chapter 17 Answer to the Difficulties (1287b36)
Chapter 18 Transition to Investigation of the Best Regime (1288a32)
Book Four: Division and Description of the Other Regimes
Chapter 1 The Questions Political Science Must Study (1288b10)
Chapter 2 The Questions Remaining to Be Studied and Their Order (1289a26)
Chapter 3 First Question: The Differences among Regimes
That There Are Several Kinds of Regime (1289b27)
Restatement of the Correct View against the Common View (1290a13)
Chapter 4 Falsity of the Common View (1290a30)
Proof of the Correct View and Reason for the Common View (1290b21)
That There Are Also Several Kinds of Democracy and Oligarchy (1291b14)
Kinds of Democracy (1291b30)
Chapter 5 Kinds of Oligarchy (1292a39)
Reason for These Kinds of Democracy and Oligarchy
Preliminary Clarification (1292b11)
Chapter 6 Relation to the Kinds of Populace and Notables (1292b22)
Chapter 7 That There Are Also Several Kinds of Aristocracy, Polity, and Tyranny
Kinds of So-called Aristocracy (1293a35)
Chapter 8 Kinds of Polity (1293b22)
Chapter 9 Reasons for These Kinds of Aristocracy and Polity (1294a30)
Chapter 10 Kinds of Tyranny (1295a1)
Chapter 11 Second Question: The Most Common and Most Choiceworthy Regime after the Best
That This Regime Is the Middle Sort of Regime (1295a25)
Why Most Regimes Are Not of the Middle Sort (1296a22)
That Other Regimes Are Better or Worse by Reference to the Middle (1296b2)
Chapter 12 Third Question: Which Regime Is Preferable for Whom
Democracies and Oligarchies (1296b13)
Mixed Regimes
The General Case (1296b38)
Chapter 13 Particular Applications (1297a14)
Chapter 14 Fourth Question: How to Set Up These Regimes
By Means of the Deliberative Body (1297b35)
Chapter 15 By Means of the Offices
The Differences among Offices (1299a3)
The Appointment of Offices (1300a9)
Chapter 16 By Means of the Law Courts (1300b13)
Book Five: Destruction and Preservation of the Other Regimes
Chapter 1 Fifth Question: Destruction and Preservation of Regimes
Destruction of Regimes in General
The Starting Point of Change (1301a19)
Kinds of Change and Which Regimes Suffer Them (1301b4)
Chapter 2 Beginnings and Causes of Change
Their Kinds and Number (1302a16)
Chapter 3 The Power of Their Operation (1302a16)
Chapter 4 Occasion and Means of Their Operation (1302b5)
Chapter 5 Destruction of Regimes in Particular
Destruction of Democracies (1304b19)
Chapter 6 Destruction of Oligarchies (130537)
Chapter 7 Destruction of Mixed Regimes (1306b22)
Chapter 8 Preservation of Regimes in Particular (1307b26)
Chapter 9 Preservation of Regimes in General (1309a33)
Chapter 10 Destruction of Monarchies
How Kingships and Tyrannies Are Like Regimes (1310a39)
That They Are Destroyed in Similar Ways
In General (1311a22)
In Particular (1313a34)
Chapter 11 Preservation of Monarchies
Kingships (1313a18)
Tyrannies (1313a34)
Chapter 12 Durability of Tyrannies (1315b11)
Refutation of the Rival Views of Socrates (1316a1)
Book Six: Setting Up the Other Regimes
Chapter 1 Reason and Order of the Addendum (1316b31)
The Setting Up of Democracies (1317a18)
Chapter 2 The Features of Democracy (1317a40)
Chapter 3 How to Set Up the Kinds of Democracy
The First or Rhetorical Democracy (1318a3)
Chapter 4 The Other Democracies (1318b6)
Chapter 5 How to Make the Kinds of Democracy Endure (1319b33)
Chapter 6 The Setting Up of Oligarchies
How to Set Up the Kinds of Oligarchy (1320b18)
Chapter 7 How to Make the Kinds of Oligarchy Endure (1321a5)
Chapter 8 The Setting Up of the Combination of Regimes
The Elements of Rule Available for Combining (1321b4)
Book Seven: The Best Regime
Chapter 1 Preface to the Discussion: The
That the Life of Virtue Is the Best Life for Everyone (1323a14)
That the Life of Virtue Is the Best Life for the City (1323a29)
Chapter 2 What the Life of Virtue Is
The Kinds of Virtuous Life (1324a13)
That the Life of Virtue Is Not Despotic Rule over Neighbors (1324a35)
Chapter 3 That the Life of Virtue Is Both Practical and Philosophic (1325a16)
Chapter 4 Presuppositions of the Best Regime
The Amount and Sort of Material (1325b33)
The Number of Human Beings (1326a8)
Chapter 5 The Amount and Sort of Territory
Amount and Quality (1326b26)
Topology and Size of the City
As Regards the Territory (1326b39)
Chapter 6 As Regards the Sea (1327a11)
Chapter 7 The Sort of Human Beings (1327b18)
Chapter 8 The Disposition of the Material
The Classes of Human Beings Necessary in a City (1328a21)
Chapter 9 The Separation of the Classes from Each Other
Statement and Proof of the Separation (1328b24)
Chapter 10 Confirmation from Ancient Precedents (1329a40)
The Division of the Territory
With Respect to Farming (1329b36)
Chapter 11 With Respect to the Site of the City
Health (1330a34)
Military Action and Nobility (1330a41)
Chapter 12 Political Action and Nobility (1331a19)
Chapter 13 The Best Regime Itself
The Goal That the Regime Must Be Capable of Achieving (1331b24)
That Achieving This Goal Requires Education (1332a28)
Chapter 14 The Education Required
Education Is to Train Both Ruled and Rulers (1332b12)
Education Must Follow the Division of the Soul
What the Division Is (1333a16)
Refutation of the Opposing View (1333b5)
Chapter 15 What Virtues Education Must Inculcate (1334a11)
The Order of Education (1334b6)
Chapter 16 Preliminary Stages
Childbirth (1334b29)
Chapter 17 Infancy to Age Seven (1326a3)
Education Proper
The Division of Education and Questions to Examine (1336b37)
Book Eight: Education in the Best Regime
Chapter 1 That Education Is Necessary and Must Be Common (1337a11)
Chapter 2 The Content and Manner of Education
Review of Difficulties (1337a33)
Solution to Difficulties
Education Must Be Liberal (1337b4)
Chapter 3 Education Must be for Noble Leisure (1337b21)
Chapter 4 Treatment of Particular Subjects
Gymnastics (1338b4)
Chapter 5 Music
Preliminary Discussion (1339a11)
The Purposes of Music and Education in Music
For Play and Cultured Pursuits (1339b10)
For Contribution to Character (1339b42)
Chapter 6 The Music the Young Should Be Taught
As Regards Performance (1340b20)
Chapter 7 As Regards Modes and Rhythms (1341b19)