Entre la Rpublique de Platon et les grandes oeuvres de la philosophie
politique moderne, on oublie parfois la Politique d’Aristote, qui
parat dater : Aristote est favorable l’esclavage, sexiste, mprise
le travail manuel, et ne reconnat comme tat que la cit grecque. De
plus, il ne se laisse pas aisment rcuprer par la pense
contemporaine, n’tant ni dmocrate, ni libral, ni galitariste.
Pourtant, quand il s’agit de distinguer entre les rgimes, de
comprendre la nature de chacun et les conditions de leur stabilit
tous, d’indiquer la voie du compromis entre les groupes sociaux, ou
encore, dans ses rapports avec l’conomie ou avec la morale, de
dfinir et louer la politique en termes de justice, d’amiti,
d’intrt commun ou d’panouissement humain, on ne peut se passer
d’Aristote. La difficult mme qu’on prouve rsumer sa position,
faite de tensions et de nuances, est signe de la richesse du propos,
la fois plus raliste que le propos platonicien, et cependant comme
lui soucieux d’identifier le rgime le meilleur.
La collection Philo-oeuvres n’a d’autre but que d’aider la lecture d
es grandes oeuvres philosophiques. Chaque volume de la coll. comprend
trois parties : 1.une prsentation de l’oeuvre dans sa dimension prop
rement systmatique, – 2.des textes comments – 3.un vocabulaire
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