What is the science of politics?

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Asked by sarah b #257613 on 7/3/2014 9:48 AM

Last updated by Roskolnikov on 7/3/2014 9:53 AM

Answered by Roskolnikov on 7/3/2014 9:53 AM

Politics is:

• The highest practical science.

• Its aim, the human good, which is necessarily social.

• This holds given that we are social animals, i.e., require others to live.

• We also require others to practice the various sciences.

Nichomachean Ethics, Book I and scholar James Mensch’s lecture notes on academia.edu