Aristotle: Nicomachean Ethics
What is the science of politics?
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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