Amid such public neglect, it becomes the duty of an individual to contribute what he can to the improvement of those that he is concerned in, and for that purpose to acquire the capacities qualifying him for becoming a lawgiver.

Private admonition will compensate to a certain extent for the neglect of public interference, and in particular cases may be even more discriminating.

Bat how are such capacities to be acquired?
Not from the Sophists, whose method is too empirical; nor from practical politicians, for they seem to have no power of imparting their skill.

Perhaps it would be useful to make a collection of existing laws and constitutions.

Aristotle concludes with sketching the plan of his own work on Politics.
* * * * * The Aristotelian doctrines are generally summed up in such points as these:--The theory of Good; Pleasure; the theory of Virtue; the doctrine of the Will, distinguishing voluntary from involuntary; Virtue a Habit; the doctrine of the MEAN; the distinction between the Moral Virtues and the Intellectual Virtues; Justice, distributive, and commutative; Friendship; the Contemplative Life.
The following are the indications of his views, according to the six leading subjects of Ethics.
I.and II .-- It is characteristic of Aristotle (as is fully stated in Appendix B.) to make the judgment of the wisest and most cultivated minds, the standard of appeal in moral questions.