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Introduction Aristotle's Politics is one of the most influential and enduring texts of political philosophy in all of history. The Aristotelian tradition has formed the backdrop against which all subsequent political and moral philosophy has found its orientation. While writers in the Aristotelian tradition believed that politics has to be based on a fundamental conception of the good as an objective ultimate end for human beings, political theorists from the pre-moderns to today have tried to base politics on anything but a shared idea of the good. The initial reason for this change is perhaps the fear that claiming the existence of one objective end for human life is too likely to lead to serious conflicts like the Wars of Religion. These motivations are relatively clear at least in the case of Hobbes, who lived through both the Wars of Religion and the English Civil War, both of which were highly...

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