What is Aristotle's view of ruling in the "politics"? Why are some fit to rule and others.
This essay will give an idea what was Aristotle's view of ruling in the "politics" and .
only some, example, Men were able to rule and others were not because of either they .
were females or happened to be slaves. Before talking about these in general lets first .
have an introduction of Aristotle.
Aristotle was born in 384 B.C. He was a Greek philosopher, logician and a scientist. .
Along with his teacher Plato who was the author of The Republic. Aristotle was born in .
the town of Stagira, Macedonia. At the age of seventeen, Aristotle left for Athens to study .
at Plato's Academy. Aristotle, despite the fact that being a student of Plato, later on we .
see that his views start to diverged as Plato was a "Utopian thinker of the existence of .
order while Aristotle was not".1 .
Aristotle is generally regarded as one of the most influential thinkers in a number of .
philosophical fields, including political theory, His Politics or "Polis" is one of the most .
influential and enduring texts of political philosophy in all of history. In it he talks about .
two elements which can't exists or work without each other. The first one being a .
"master and his slave" 2a or Men and women which can be said as a village, since its .
main function was, to reproduce and a "house hold" 2b in order for people to survive. .
And it is the house hold where people used to get training about "natural rights", about .
who is fit to rule and who is ruled. as it will be explained below.
Aristotle also goes on saying that the "Polis" is a "natural Entity"3 as one element in it .
naturally rules the other. Example: Master who, Aristotle thought, naturally has a right to .
rule his slave Or a man who has a natural right to rule his woman and finally parents, .
mainly the father, who rules over his children . It is interesting to note .
that here the views of Aristotle is different than his teacher, Plato.
Aristotle "The range of Aristotle's interest and intellect is extraordinary. ... When Aristotle was about ten years old his father died. ... Proxenus taught Aristotle Greek, rhetoric, and poetry. ... Through Aristotle's life he accomplished many works. ... For Aristotle, psychology was a study of the soul. ...
Aristotle Consider Aristotle to be one of the three greatest thinkers of all time. ... The relationship between Aristotle and Plato was bittersweet. ... Categories contains example of Aristotle's logic deduction. ... Aristotle calls this prime mover God. ... Aristotle was the image of all wisdom in ancient humanity. ...
Proxenus taught Aristotle Greek poetry and rhetoric's. ... These works were Aristotle's thoughts on logic. ... Aristotle called logic, analytics. ... Aristotle also had his own philosophy of nature. ... Aristotle rejects the definition of space as the void. ...
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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 database for his theorizing about politics. 2. ... Thus, to cities of human beings, Aristotle would compare schools of fish, flocks of geese, hives of bees, anthills, and so forth.] ... In Politics III.9 Aristotle argues against competing conceptions of the nature and purpose of a political system. ... How could a political liberal object to Aristotle's argument for his paternalistic principle?...
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Aristotle believed that a person who has difficulty behaving ethically is morally imperfect. ... According to Aristotle, we only should be praised and blamed for which we can be held responsible. ... In book IV, Aristotle points out that honor, pleasure, and wealth are the things believed to make people happy. ... By distributive justice, Aristotle means fairness in exchange and fairness in the distribution of goods. ... Furthermore, Aristotle argues that people act justly or unjustly voluntary. ...
Based on Aristotle's view of political science, politicians need to determine which sciences need to be in communities. ... They see this type of advance to be a great benefit to society, in agreement to Aristotle's view of political science. ... According to Aristotle, means are pursued to achieve certain aims. ... Aristotle would argue that their ends are being pursued for their own fulfillment rather than society as a whole. ... Politicians are currently trying to keep the main intent of political science based on Aristotle. ...
