What is the nature of political community? What is a regime? Why is it bad to change laws too often? What's the difference between ruling a household and ruling a city? Is democracy really the best form of government? Get into these questions and many more!

Sometimes it can be helpful to reframe or restate a policy issue from various perspectives, bringing different sides of the issue to light depending on how you view it. You'll practice doing that by applying Aristotle's reasoning to contemporary political affairs.

In this course, you'll have the opportunity to develop arguments for and against various policies and political arrangements using Aristotle's book as the starting point. You'll practice arguing against Aristotle, too. You'll become a more effective debater, speaker, and analyst.

It has often been suggested that we are in the midst of a social, political, cultural, civilizational crisis. Could it be that we turned our back on ancient wisdom? We won't know until we revisit a lost tradition. Have we progressed past Aristotle? Or lost our way?