Aristotle, Plato’s greatest pupil and sharpest critic, generated the revolutionary idea that laws, not men, should rule, planting the seeds of a democratic tradition that continues in our time. This book not only contextualizes Aristotle’s views of government and the political community within the Ancient World but also includes key sections from <em>Nicomachean Ethics</em> and <em>Politics</em>, Aristotle’s only surviving works.