Justice and Constitution: Aristotle’s Political Science and the Intelligibility of History (Arist. "EN", V, 1134a 25-1135a 8)

• Main Author: Elisabetta Poddighe
• Format: Article
• Language: Spanish
• Published: Ediciones Complutense 2016-12-01
• Series: Gerión
• Subjects: aristotele; giusto politico; costituzione; legge; intelligibilità
• Online Access: http://revistasculturales.ucm.es/index.php/GERI/article/view/53736

<p>In <em>NE </em>Book V Aristotle recognizes the condition required for the implementation of a particular kind of justice, namely, political justice (<em>politikon dikaion</em>): that condition is a form of government (<em>politeia</em>). Central to the point of Aristotle’s comparising <em>politeia </em>and political justice is the intelligibility of political justice (and of <em>politeia</em>): political justice becomes intelligible in that it departs from absolute justice, in the same way as forms of government deviate from the ideal one i.e. the best form.</p>