... will perhaps grasp better what sort of political system is best. . ." By "the collected political systems" (Nicomachean Ethics X.9.1181b17), Aristotle means a collection of constitutional histories of 158 Greek city-states which Aristotle had prepared as a basis for his lectures on politics; by comparison, the United Nations currently recognizes only 174 independent nation-states on earth today. Of the 158 constitutional histories, only ... one, the Constitution of Athens, survives; scholars think that it was written by Aristotle himself. At any rate, Aristotle had a very large empirical...

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... 40 "Religious Muggeridge--page 41 Chapter 2-Muggeridge's Philosophy-page 43 CONCLUSION-page 46 PART I (THE STATUS QUO) ?Introduction Enlightenment thought served as the central basis for utopian politics. French thinkers like Charles Louis de Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu and Jean Jacques Rousseau dreamed of recreating the best aspects of former political systems through improving people. Condorcet was ... philosopher. He thought humans tended toward perfection, or at least improvement, despite evidence to the contrary. Thus, his teleological (ends-based) philosophy is called a science o...

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... science is to find ways of improving how a government governs; this is usually done through comparing and contrasting how different governments function and by looking at their advantages and disadvantages. Politics is concerned with all of the functions of a government, things like the allocations of resources and the optimizing of social welfare as well as things like government finance, budgets, types ... are important because they educate both citizens and political leaders, by contributing to debates on political issues, and by encouraging different ways of looking at the world. Th...

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France and Britain: The Difference Within Scholars from Aristotle onward have proposed that the characteristics of society directly affect the nature of government. If we apply this to Britain ... two most important means of socialization are family and education. The family teaches civic responsibility and class differences, although, unlike France, these are moderated by British politics. The educational system reiterates the class differences, but is not as elitist as in France. As for France, the family, and education are the most ... Due to these factors in political socialization, the ...

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