In Aristotle’s work Posterior Analytics he covers a couple things including an argument against circular proof. “In Posterior Analytics 1.3, Aristotle advances three arguments against circular proof”, …show more content…
“As a political scientist, Aristotle produced a catalog of governments in which he discussed a number of different types of governments such as monarchy, aristocracy, democracy, oligarchy, and even constitutional government”, (Husarik, 2014 pg. 202). For Aristotle’s Politics he studied the constitutions of one hundred- fifty eight different states and arrived at general categories for organized government. “He identified three good forms of government: monarchy, aristocracy, and constitutional government” (Duiker, Spielvogel, 2007, pg 112). Aristotle then goes on to say that a monarchy could turn into a tyranny, an aristocracy could turn into an oligarchy, and a constitutional government could turn into anarchy. Aristotle favored constitutional government over all other options. Aristotle believed that no matter kind of government that is being run the most power must be invested into the middle class. Aristotle states that if the most power is invested into the middle class that government will last the longest. The middle class has the power to keep the lower class under control while still keeping an eye on the upper class to make sure they behave properly, (Husarik, 2014, pg.