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Aristotle, citizen, citizenship, polisCopyright (c) 2012 C. Megino
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Abstract
In this work I carry out an analysis of the conception Aristotle had of what we nowadays name citizen and citizenship. I deal with this analysis resorting to the terminology that Aristotle himself uses to refer to what, from his conceptual perspective, corresponds grosso modo with those two notions: the lexical items polítes (???????) and politeia (????????). Since both terms depend –etymologically as well as for Aristotle himself– on polis (?????), which in Ancient Greece referred to the whole group of inhabitants of a sovereign city, I explain firstly this concept and then I analyze the senses of polít?s and politeia.
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