Wednesday, January 28, 2026

The Proper Size of the Polis by Aristotle

 https://centerforneweconomics.org/publications/aristotle/

But as regards good friends, should we have as many as possible, or is there a limit to the number of one's friends, as there is to the size of a city? You cannot make a city of ten men, and if there are a hundred thousand it is a city no longer. But the proper number is presumably not a single number, but anything that falls between certain fixed points.

https://classics.mit.edu/Aristotle/nicomachaen.9.ix.html


No comments: