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which is posed throughout Aristotle's work as a whole.
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What is Aristotle's political science?
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What is it for?
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What is he attempting to do?
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Already you could say to ask this question is to state a claim.
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Does Aristotle have a political science, a science of politics?
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Again, if so, what is it about?
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To begin to answer this question, you might say even begin to think
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about it in the right way, requires that we stand back from
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Aristotle's text for a while and ask some fundamental questions about it.
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What does Aristotle mean by the political?
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What is the goal or purpose of the study of politics,