... man would fulfill his Telos. This was done independently from the polis. Further, since Plato's ideal sate could not exist and would become corrupted; Aristotle created the paradigm of the "Natural Order." This contained the one, the few, and the many. This concept would be adopted by many ... ideal state. His concept of representative government would of course play out over history to include the Roman government and variations of today's International States. Aristotle also believed that virtue could reasoned by everyone and that if they lived within the "golden mean" between "deficit...

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... knows, likely the strongest caveman was the ruler of the clan and made all of the important decisions. Some of the earliest thinkers, Plato and Aristotle, thought that there was two ways of defining government back then as well as today. Government can be conducted in such a fashion that it ... or a Constitutional Monarchy, as it is commonly know; while the name for the lawless rule of the many is called a democracy. A monarchy for Plato and Aristotle was a regime in which sovereign authority was vested in one person, who ruled within the laws of the polis or city. Its corrupt counterpar...

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... the economic and well as the political field as well. Plato believed that ownership of private property could constrict man's reasoning abilities and thus restricted the Guardian classes from ownership. Aristotle on the other hand, approved of it but stated that any class who had too much of it and was extremely wealthy, could affect and create an imbalance in the ... to own property. He felt that right to property was the most significant as compared to right to life and liberty. It was most sacred. He didn't not agree to Aristotle's notion of private property but somehow greed to Rous...

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Aristotle, in his classical work - The Politics - defined three methods of power within the state: Monarchy - the rule of one person, Aristocracy - the rule of few people and Democracy - the rule ... ...

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