... is not the case according to Aristotle's views on political participation. Aristotle omits two factions of people from this argument; slaves and women. According to Aristotle, women were inferior to men in many aspects of life including their connection to nature. Aristotle claimed women were emotional and non-rational whereas men were linked with reason and were assigned to preside over women. Women were to conceive children and perform domestic duties within the ... be allowed to participate in making or suggesting political decisions. Therefore, slaves should perform slave activities...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

... ensure a good operation of State, if supplemented by some other principles: commonality of property, women, rulers and warriors. This would help to evade avidity and competition, as well as domination of private interests over the social ones. The territory of an ideal state should not be too vast and over-populated, to escape the emergence of expansionist tendencies, being the source of external wars ... of socio-political life. That's why among virtues a special place is given to "justitia-,"œjustice-. It is the mean between two types of injustice: violation of law and unequal attitu...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

... relationship, but one who is in direct participation in the deliberative and judicial functions of the community. This excludes resident aliens, children, women, slaves, and members of the working class. The citizens should be Greek, as Aristotle believed that Europeans have drive without intelligence, and the Asiatic's have intelligence without drive. Aristotle believed that only those that are able to give time to ... in a direct government ruled by qualified and educated citizens whose goal was the wellness of the state and not their own political gain. By modern definition, Aristotl...

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... ability is obtained through avenues of violence. It is hard to decipher whether or not individuals or regimes have throughout time have obtained power and caused the spilling of blood in order to obtain or maintain power for what they felt was the betterment of the people which their power ... not kill other people or commit other atrocities that may upset the harmony of the world. Yet, in the name of their country, men and women will take arms and kill others as a display of their state's power over a weaker place. Some will take up arms knowing they will die in order ... to dictate that...

• Word Count: 1873
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• Grade Level: High School