... in their respective centuries, there is no such thing as equality within the masses. Both have distinct exclusions. Aristotle discusses oligarchy and democracy. In an oligarchy, government by the few is prevalent. Only the upper echelon is equal. Yet, even within these few, there is inequality. No one person can have ... Depending on the criteria for judgment, each could have more or less influence than the others. In a democracy, government is by the many. There again, within the "many" there is inequality. The people may elect a representative, but not all the people have an equal vote...

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... Democracy and that every citizen has a job to do for his community. But, he does not believe that you are stuck in ones' social class like Aristotle. Aristotle believes everything is here on earth for a specific reason, i.e. the plants are here for the animals, and the animals are here for us while the ... republic, and both agree that in order for it to run as smooth as possible, people need to be active in their voting process. Both of these men think people have certain roles in society, and they both agree that some jobs are more important, and others are more desirable. A more impor...

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... Vader to Obi Wan, it nonetheless provides the perfect setting for the philosophical debate that, in my opinion, would exist today Plato and Aristotle. Aristotle, a student of the Academy, did not believe in Plato's theoretical view of the world. Rather, he felt that the world could be ... empirical, or founded on experimentation. To that end, Aristotle has been called the "first known scientist" with his influences still apparent in today's modern science. To Aristotle, "all men desired to know." While man enjoyed sensation, like all animals, Aristotle added the practices of experience ...

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... who were also kings, followed by the courageous, and ended with the rest of who must have desire. He established the Academy at which he taught Aristotle. The third school of thought was that of Aristotle (384-322 B. C.). He felt that form and matter were one, not two separate concepts. Based on his beliefs that the previous were not separable, he not ... 's view of a strict overhaul of society in general wasn't necessary. He believed that society was at its optimum and you can only improve upon the existing one. Both Plato and Aristotle were two men who envisioned methods on ways to imp...

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... it, and then those people take care of things. I had to read the sections about government a couple times until I understood it. What I understand is that Aristotle focuses on three forms of government: oligarchy, democracy, and polity. When I saw the word polity over and over again, I really didn't understand it. I had ... never seen that word before, but he used it many times, and it was a focus. I began to realize that polity was to Aristotle a word he used for an additional form of government. Once I understood this, I thought it was really a great idea. It seems that oligarchy has s...

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... This shift gathered impetus through the havoc wreaked by the two World Wars. The second Feminist Movement focused on ways in which womens differed from men, but now (for the first time) the differences were seen as positive elements. For instance, it was argued that women were more peace ... loving, patient, caring, more accommodating and diplomatic, less aggressive and less selfish than men. Again the theorists broke up into two groups: some argued thatwomen's positive qualities were a natural asset, while others said that they were acquired or ... were previously the reason for barri...

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12 Angry Men, a play by Reginald Rose, is about twelve jurors who have to decide whether a kid is guilty or not. The kid was accused of killing his father and although he pleaded ... didn't hear it. I mean with the el [train] noise (pg. 33)..." He probably feels bad about voting to end a kid's life because he tells the other jurors that there are men who have gone to jail or been put to death and some years later, you find out they were innocent. Juror Two is the kind of person who would never ... ...

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... to the young man as being guilty beyond a reasonable doubt. Until one man stands up for true justice, and protects the kid from an unpredictable ending to the movie. 12 men on a jury cram into a little office with the table being almost the size of the room. Its extremely hot and some people in there are more worried about other obligations ... ...

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... a coexisting government between democracy and oligarchy. Bringing together virtuous means along with the poor and wealthy, gives the society a chance to grow simultaneously rather than restricting growth to solely within a class. Thus, a functional government can be both democratic and oligarchic if it produces the distribution of office. Another way for a functional government to be simultaneously democratic and ... Teaching equality at a young stage in a child's life helps keep all classes united instead of the rich becoming prejudice towards the poor. Retaining this equality preserve...

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... , defense and liberty; therefore, Athenians owed their city-state their allegiance. To do this, citizens had to use their freedom (or virtuous behavior) to positively impact Athens' laws and norms. Aristotle believed the law should regulate a person's personal and private life (Politics 35) and have full authority to determine the morals for the entire city. Citizens were required to engage in ... addition, he maintains that direct-democracy was only possible in antiquity because Greeks could rely on slaves to do most of the labor (Lecture 313). A plethora of free time allowed men of anc...

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... many contrasting views. What one chooses as a definition of democracy can cause a discrepancy for another with a conflicting point of view. The Greek philosopher Aristotle ( 384-322 B.C.) was the first to define democracy in his argument "A Definition of Justice", in which he established the foundations and ideas of ... 1826) wrote one of the most memorable documents in American history ; the Declaration of Independence. Even though, the difference between Jefferson and Aristotle is enormous and despite the time gap, their creations are the groundwork for democracy as we know it today. T...

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... their ideas from the philosophers that came before them, they each formed unique opinions about the world, life, and how to live. Socrates was a sort of bridge to Plato and Aristotle. In fact, in a way, Socrates and Plato were the same person, a sort of "Plocrates." The Republic, which Plato wrote, is predominantly about the ideas put forth by Socrates. Socrates was ... writes of Socrates idea of an ultimate good and understanding, but exactly how to reach this good and understanding is not completely clear. Just as Plato was a student of Socrates, Aristotle was a student of Plato. Aris...

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... is not strictly restricted to modern democracies. Even the idea that the most efficient separation of a governing body is into three discrete parts is an old one. The Greek philosopher, Aristotle wrote that the fairest political system would be the one in which power was shared among the monarchy, the aristocracy, and the common people. John Locke described a kind of a more ... check the others" natural tendency to expand their power and influence. It is based on the Rule of Law, which contemplates that the government is of law and not of men. It requires law as the basis for government...

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... of government with which the members of the commune manage their affairs. Frazier describes the scheme of the "Board of Planners-, three men and three women who are invested with broad powers, both in policy formulation and in the judiciary of Walden Two. Frazier tells ... happy, efficient existence. At Walden Two, all human behavior is rationalized to a degree that surpasses the dreams of the most ambitious "cultural engineer-. Men, women, and children live together in perfect harmony, growing their own food, manufacturing their own tools and implements, designing and sewing their own ...

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... . Another aspect of Athens that affects the western civilization is the philosophy of the time. Some of the great philosophers in Athens, besides the law giver, Solon, were Socrates, Plato, Aristotle. Socrates was a very ugly, but very wise man. He would go around asking questions that was simple to answer and explore those answers with further questioning until the questions become ... , The Republic, in which he illustrates his perfect society. This book was practiced by Europe for 1,500 years and also gave Greeks his piece of mind. A student out of Plato, Aristotle was a man hungry lik...

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... discussions. Tocqueville's famous theory of "The Tyranny of the Majority" is often quoted by both Democratic and Republican parties; and always to their advantage. Tocqueville did for Democratic government, what Aristotle did for drama (Dean). Tocqueville's Democracy in America has become a standard text for understanding how this country, and government works. Tocqueville said that three principles were necessary for Democracy; equality ... ...

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... against foreign power was easily answered with the creation of a national army; but how could this new government protect states' interests from themselves within the confines of a democratic governmental system? I contend that through the bureaucratization of a federalized system the early American government was able to use ... would argue that these precautions were Madison's way of limiting the influence of the people within the new federal system. The framers were weary of too free of a democracy in a society where they (men of their class) were in the minority. They found the majori...

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... and dismiss the government, dissolve the Reichstag and he controlled foreign policy and the armed forces. The Reichstag was however, was elected by men over 25. The Reichstag could agree to or reject laws put forward by the Kaiser or the government, but they could not remove the ... danger of rebellion from the members of the Reichstag because they would always have more power. This indicates that there was also a certain level of democracy within the 2nd Reich too. The Reichstag did not however, have a parliamentary government, meaning that it had a semi-absolutist regime, which was a m...

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... crossing the Atlantic and settling on a new continent, away from Britain's ruthless Monarchy. The French sought to end their own political injustices, although freedom within the monarchy would have to be established in France because there was no place other than France they wished to go. As soon as the French ... The slogan of the French Revolution was Liberty, Equality, and Fraternity" (174). This slogan entails that the French Revolution was a movement to end inequality amongst men, and to rid determination of wealth upon what family you were born into, in hopes of changing the dispa...

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... dictator and dictatorship in the Spanish world." These great people gained status in their communities and proved to their people that they were influential men and women. There are various ranges of caudillos, just as there are in politics. They can range from liberal to moderate and anything ... numerous rankings parallel to the army and military. Elections were very important in the selection of these leaders and were decided by their peoples. Within these political group, central leadership is the controlling agent. The ranges of a caudillo are very diverse. Like any politician, th...

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... made new laws that were debated in the assembly. Only citizens could vote; Women, foreigners, and slaves did not have the right to vote. These men who were aristocrats lead the government and had supreme control over all of the verdicts and criminal accusations in Athens. Problems arose when aristocrats become jealous ... . In the end four classes were developed to rank the male citizens of Athens based on their income. The five- hundred-measure men, horsemen, yoked men, and laborers were the four classes that were devised by this new system of codes and laws. In the Athenian society bot...

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... seventeenth and eighteenth century voting was limited. In 1670 in the Chesapeake Society the House of Burgesses limited voting right to landowners and householders; men of course. This was also the case with the Puritan community, which also required church membership for its voting privileges. Through the years ... that followed white, property owning, tax-paying men were only allowed to vote. The only exception that was sometimes made was for some widows who owned property. By the time the ... Declaration of Independence was established it stated that " all "men" are by nature "equall...

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... to accomplish was more important than any one human being. Puritans willingly submitted themselves to the elected authority, whether it was religious, or political. Within the Puritan society, the Puritans were actually the minority and yet, in the beginning, this did not seem to matter. The non-puritan majority ... would lead to further reformation, but not exactly in the way the Puritans had envisioned. Over time, some Puritans began to believe that all men were inherently evil and not any one man could be trusted to interpret or execute God's will by themselves. This led to some very...

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... have certain things in common such as language and religion. Two of the most famous city-states were Athens and Sparta. Athens was home to approximately 140,000 people (slaves, men, women, children) while Sparta was home to only about 8,000 Spartiates, or male adult warriors (they ruled over a population of 100,000 enslaved/semi-enslaved people). Though very ... army. Boys were taken from their parents at age 7 to begin army training. They were often hungry and beaten. They slept away from home, in barracks, with the other men. If they cried, they were beaten. They were taught how to s...

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... Thomas Paine's "Common Sense" was one of the most influential political pamphlets during the American Revolution. This pamphlet served as reinforcement for the American colonies will for independence from England. Within the confines of fifty pages Paine tried to illustrate to the America people the evils of the monarchy and the contradictions of the English government, and show that the king ... its hereditary nature of succession. Through succession the throne is subject to the rule of minors, and as kings get older and feeble they are both easily manipulated by men with strong wills ...

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