Visions of the East (and West) of a philosopher. Aristotle, the Politics and the Persians. This contribution focuses on the role that Aristotle assigns to the Persians in the Politics, starting from the few passages where this ethnos is explicitly claimed into question. Before dwelling on the Persians, this paper analyzes the treatment that the philosopher reserves to the barbarians throughout his work. Rather than being a mere historical (and/or historiographical) ‘subjects’, the Persians are here exploited as a rhetorical-argumentative ‘tool’ useful to provide explanatory and probative force to the main argument.
Visioni d’Oriente (e d’Occidente) di un filosofo. Aristotele, la Politica e i Persiani
zizza, c.
2021-01-01
Abstract
Visions of the East (and West) of a philosopher. Aristotle, the Politics and the Persians. This contribution focuses on the role that Aristotle assigns to the Persians in the Politics, starting from the few passages where this ethnos is explicitly claimed into question. Before dwelling on the Persians, this paper analyzes the treatment that the philosopher reserves to the barbarians throughout his work. Rather than being a mere historical (and/or historiographical) ‘subjects’, the Persians are here exploited as a rhetorical-argumentative ‘tool’ useful to provide explanatory and probative force to the main argument.File in questo prodotto:
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