hide Sorting

You can sort these results in two ways:

By entity
Chronological order for dates, alphabetical order for places and people.
By position (current method)
As the entities appear in the document.

You are currently sorting in ascending order. Sort in descending order.

hide Most Frequent Entities

The entities that appear most frequently in this document are shown below.

Entity Max. Freq Min. Freq
Athens (Greece) 22 0 Browse Search
Sparta (Greece) 10 0 Browse Search
Scythia 6 0 Browse Search
Troy (Turkey) 4 0 Browse Search
Corinth (Greece) 2 0 Browse Search
Argos (Greece) 2 0 Browse Search
Thebes (Greece) 2 0 Browse Search
Amphipolis (Greece) 2 0 Browse Search
Megara (Greece) 2 0 Browse Search
Crete (Greece) 2 0 Browse Search
View all entities in this document...

Browsing named entities in a specific section of Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics (ed. H. Rackham). Search the whole document.

Found 6 total hits in 2 results.

Athens (Greece) (search for this): book 10, chapter 9
totle's Politics, excepting Book 1; ‘a review,’ etc., is Book 2, ‘then,’ etc., Books 3-4, ‘what is the best constitution,’ etc., Books 7 and 8. will begin then by attempting a review of any pronouncements of value contributed by our predecessors in this or that branch of the subject; and then on the basis of our collection of constitutionsAristotle compiled, or caused to be compiled, descriptions of the constitutions of 158 Greek states: of these the Constitution of Athens alone survives. we will consider what institutions are preservative and what destructive of states in general, and of the different forms of constitution in particular, and what are the reasons which cause some states to be well governed and others the contrary. For after studying these questions we shall perhaps be in a better position to discern what is the best constitution absolutely, and what are the best regulations, laws, and customs for any given f
Sparta (Greece) (search for this): book 10, chapter 9
invested with adequate sanctions. Now paternal authority has not the power to compel obedience, nor indeed, speaking generally, has the authority of any individual unless he be a king or the like; but law on the other hand is a rule, emanating from a certain wisdom and intelligence, that has compulsory force. Men are hated when they thwart people's inclinations, even though they do so rightly, whereas law can enjoin virtuous conduct without being invidious. But Sparta appears to be the only or almost the only state in which the lawgiver has paid attention to the nurture and exercises of the citizens; in most states such matters have been entirely neglected, and every man lives as he likes, in Cyclops fashion ‘laying down the law For children and for spouse.’Hom. Od. 9.114 f., quoted in Aristot. Pol. 1252b 22. The best thing is then that there should be a proper system of public regulation; but when the matter is ne