Aristotle on Legal Change

• Elisabetta Poddighe ^[1]
  1. [1] University of Cagliari

     University of Cagliari

     Cagliari, Italia

     
• Localización: Araucaria: Revista Iberoamericana de Filosofía, Política, Humanidades y Relaciones Internacionales, ISSN 1575-6823, ISSN-e 2340-2199, Vol. 21, Nº 42, 2019 (Ejemplar dedicado a: Monográfico I. Tocqueville. Monográfico II. Narratives of Power: Demagogues, Politics and Morality at the Start of the 21ST Century), págs. 183-207
• Idioma: inglés
• DOI: 10.12795/araucaria.2019.i42.09
• Títulos paralelos:
  • La discusión aristotélica del cambio legal
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  • español

    La discusión de Aristóteles sobre el cambio legal en Política II.8 es el tema de este artículo. El objetivo es mostrar que Aristóteles vio el cambio legal positivamente, cuando se requieren cambios a la ley, y que su discusión se refería principalmente a los dos roles bastante distintos del demos y del legislador. El análisis implica un nuevo examen de 1268b 25ss en el libro II de la Política de Aristóteles y su conexión con el libro III. El análisis también se extiende a la Retórica de Aristóteles y la Ética a Nicómaco, y al Político y las Leyes de Platón.

  • English

    Aristotle’s discussion of legal change in Politics II.8 is the subject of this article. The aim is to show that Aristotle viewed legal change positively, when changes to the law were required, and that his discussion was mainly concerned with the two rather distinct roles of the demos and of the legislator. This essay deals with a re-examination of 1268b 25ff. in book II of Aristotle’s Politics and its connection with book III. The analysis is also extended to Aristotle’s Rhetoric and Nicomachean Ethics, and to Plato’s Politicus and Laws.

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