Abstract
AbstractAristotle's influence in the history of political thought is surpassed perhaps by only one other philosopher, his teacher Plato. These two thinkers form the main branches of the tradition inaugurated by Plato's own teacher Socrates, a tradition that has shaped political thought from classical antiquity to the present. Aristotle himself was known as “the Philosopher” across the Islamic, Jewish, and Christian worlds of the medieval era and even in the period in which his thought seemed moribund, following the attacks of his greatest modern antagonist, Thomas Hobbes, it remained a powerful alternative to a modern tradition that rejected its central tenets. Today Aristotle's thought enjoys robust life in schools of virtue ethics, natural law, neo‐Aristotelian political theory, and various forms of communitarianism and republicanism.
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