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There are some issues that are very crucial for a proper understanding of the political. The issue of the equality or inequality of possessions, and the extent of this inequality; the organization of the territory and of the citizen body; and the change of the laws, are among the most important.
At the same time, the way a thinker deals with these issues reveals a lot of things about his understanding of the political; his ideas of the way a society...
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Aristotle acknowledges that the different views regarding the most appropriate form of government stem from the different priority that various men, or groups of men, give to the different values.
The primary political dispute is whether freedom, wealth, power, or moral virtue, should be considered as the primary value for judging equality.
In order to interpret Aristotle's egalitarian and participatory understanding of the political, we need...
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For Aristotle, a constitution should be named as a democratic one when the sovereign body of the polis is consisted of the free men who are not wealthy, and these men are the majority.
We see that Aristotle links democracy with the rule of the poor. He emphasizes that the rule of the poor is the distinctive element of democracy, and not the rule of the many. It is central to Aristotle that there is not only one but a number of different kinds of...
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While reading Aristotle's analysis of the various constitutions in the third book of the Politics, a discussion that took place at a distant past comes to mind. It is the discussion among Megillus of Lacedaemon, Clinias of Crete, and an Athenian Stranger, during a walk from Cnosus to the cave and temple of Zeus on Mount Ida, "on a long midsummer day". This walk is narrated in Plato's Laws. It seems that Aristotle is reflecting on the part of the discussion...
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