Views of Aristotles Politics Ethics Aristotle identified politics
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Views of Aristotle’s Politics Ethics Aristotle identified politics as the continuation and context of ethics. The communities, unlike his teacher Plato who classified people of the state, Aristotle made the term family, colony and the complete community. The city as man’s Natural condition. City is a creation of nature. The citizen, he defined the meaning of “citizen” • •
Ethics influences Politics has the most authoritative and • master art to attain and preserve ethics. To investigate politics, he made a plan first • – suggestion and second the influences that favored or destroyed states and third for an ideal continuation.
The community. The family as “the association established • by nature for the supply of men’s everyday wants, ” like man and woman. Colony as basically familial, being • composed of children and relatives The complete community or city-state • unites several villages.
City is a creation of nature. A social instinct is implanted in all men by • nature. The city is a creation of nature for • humankind. It is without a state who by nature and not • by mere accident so state includes bad man and above all humanity.
What is a citizen ? He who has the power to take part in the deliberative or judicial administration of any state.
What is a citizen ? He who has the power to take part in the deliberative or judicial administration of any state.
The varieties of constitution Monarchy Aristocracy Constitutional government • • • Tyranny Oligarchy Democracy • • •
