Politics
“the science of Politics”
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Nicomachean Ethics
The master, most authoritative science, which ordains the other sciences in the state and whose end is the human good.
for we stated that the Supreme Good was the end of political science, but the principal care of this science is to produce a certain character in the citizens, namely to make them virtuous, and capable of performing noble actions.
Therefore, the Good of man must be the end of the science of Politics.
The subjects studied by political science are Moral Nobility and Justice;
Kitāb mīzān al-ḥaqq fī al-manṭiq
Politics, characterised in an aside as an activity that licenses lying for the sake of the result required
And you may find many examples of this in the speeches of the men of politics of the backward parties — albeit that this method, though it be exceedingly faulty, politics permits lying with a view to obtaining the result required
Symposium
Public life and civic leadership as the endpoint of Socrates' advice to Callias.
So you intend acting the procurer, do you, Socrates, to bring me to the attention of the commonwealth, so that I may enter politics, and the state may always look upon me with favour?
You may regard it as certain, therefore, that our city would be quick to entrust itself to your hands, if you so desire.
Assuredly, was the reply, that is, if people see that you set your heart on virtue, not in pretence, but in reality.