Ranking the Regimes in Aristotle's Politics: The Four-Principles Approach
| Autor: | Ross Mittiga |
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| Rok vydání: | 2020 |
| Předmět: |
Sociology and Political Science
Constitution Philosophy media_common.quotation_subject 05 social sciences Rank (computer programming) 06 humanities and the arts 0603 philosophy ethics and religion Oligarchy Ideal (ethics) Democracy 0506 political science Ranking (information retrieval) Epistemology Politics 060302 philosophy Political Science and International Relations 050602 political science & public administration Aristocracy media_common |
| Zdroj: | The Review of Politics. 83:1-20 |
| ISSN: | 1748-6858 0034-6705 |
| DOI: | 10.1017/s003467052000087x |
| Popis: | There is a long-standing debate over which constitution Aristotle regards as best in the Politics. I attempt to clarify his view by reconstructing four principles he uses to assess constitutions, in both ideal and more ordinary circumstances: (i) the supremacy-of-virtue principle, (ii) the more-virtuous-citizens-are-better-than-fewer principle, (iii) the equality principle, and (iv) the stability principle. I apply these principles to defend a rank ordering of constitutions, which situates the ideal aristocracy of books 7 and 8 at the top, and tyranny, along with unmixed forms of democracy and oligarchy, at the bottom. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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