Power/Knowledge: An Introduction to Political Philosophy

PART 1 
The Ancients 1 

CHAPTER 1
The Ideal Government 5 

1 Plato (427–347 BCE), the Ideal Political Community and Practical Government 5
1.1 The Republic and the Relationship Between Ethics and Politics 6 

1.2 From the Analysis of Justice to the Organization of the City and Back 6
1.3 The Social Consequences of the Ideal State 13 

1.4 The Philosopher King and His Education 15 

1.5 The Degenerated States and Their Form 16 

1.6 The Analysis of the Historical Constitutions: The Statesman 19
CHAPTER 2 

Political Virtues 25 

2 Aristotle: Politics as “Philosophy of Human Things” 25 

2.1 The Nature of the Family and the Justification of Inequality 27 

2.2 Citizenship and Citizens 30 

2.3 Different Constitutions, Polity, and the Golden Mean 31 

2.4 The Ideal State and the Role of Education 34