Aristotle

345 B.C.

344 B.C.

343 B.C.

342 B.C.

Women are passive and receptive

Women only contribute ‘substance’

Children receive only male characteristics

Women have little appreciation for the arts and sciences

Only within a political community man can live ‘the good life’

Politics is an ethical activity concerned with creating a just society

There is a distinction between state and civil society

Politics is a master science which is essentially an attempt to create a good society

Categories and Philosophy

Protrepticus and Philosophy

Categories and On interpretation

Protrepticus and On interpretation

The soul

The brain

The heart

The body

Politics

Ethics

Poetics

Rhetoric

Epic

Comedy

Tragedy

Lyric Poetry

Harmony between the parts of the society- Plato

Greatest good of the greatest number- J. Bentham

Greatest advantages of the least advantaged- John Rawls

Interest of the strongest -Aristotle

Aristocracy

Oligarchy

Timocracy

Patriarchy