Aristocracy

A Streetcar named desire was written in 1947, a time period where the working class was rising, becoming more hardworking and working their way up from the bottom, the aristocracy, the upper class, were slowly but inevitably losing their higher status and were having to deal and live with people who were in a lower class than they were. The aristocratic societies were also shunned for being ignorant. Williams has introduced and portrayed the aristocratic women who are, Blanche and Stella in this…

to take sides. However, he ultimately argues that the most just regime gives political power to those with the most political virtue. Aristotle concludes that the best regime might be different practically than it is purely, yet he suggests that aristocracy is the most just regime. Because political virtue is so important to Aristotle’s view of the most just regime, it is important to understand political virtue’s characteristics. The most vital part of political virtue is justice. This suggests…

advantageous when compared to a democracy. One of his leading arguments states that a democracy can make men forget about their ancestors and that a democracy “throws him back forever upon himself alone.” I disagree with Tocqueville on his assertions that aristocracy is superior to a democracy for a vast number of reasons. Tocqueville asserts that a democratic government results in people erasing their memory of their past ancestors and…

In the Republic, Plato spends much of the book discussing an aristocracy and its superiority as a political regime. Plato believes that the ruler of the city should be a philosopher who goes through a strict and demanding education system; applying his “myth of the metals,” the ideal king must have a gold as opposed to silver, bronze, or iron. Those possessing a silver soul are the guardians of the city, and those with souls of bronze or iron form the majority. Plato digresses from his portrayal…

responsibility of the privileged people to act with generosity and nobility toward those less privileged. A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens expresses how the concept of noblesse oblige is heavily neglected because the aristocracy has a deep hatred for the third estate, the aristocracy uses their riches for their own personal gain, and the rich make no effort to help the less fortunate. The upper class of France during the French Revolution constituted only three percent of the…

his community faces because a corrupt government is more beneficial than no government. Hobbes would probably feel that that inequality/oppression would be the least of society’s problems if it was lacking government. Hobbes believed a monarchy/aristocracy was the ideal method of governance because of the importance of upholding the law and peace in…

many cultures had a common constitution, however, before the Roman constitution, a Greek historian named Polybius claimed these were flawed and too ‘simple’. According to Polybius these constitutions operated under one of four types, kingship, aristocracy, democracy, and mob rule. These constitutions with the formation of civilization, begin and with kingship and work their way down respectively and are cyclical, as Polybius would point out “Constitutional revolutions…change, are transformed,…

the Three Estates. The First Estate was the Clergy, the Second Estate consisted of the French aristocracy, and the Third Estate was everyone…

In Allan Bloom's translated book, "The Republic of Plato" Socrates breaks apart the idea of justice and solidifies his ideas in order to fully grasp all aspects of it. Socrates is dedicated to fully develop the notion of justice, as he wants to discover the truth about what is right and wrong while abolishing the ideas of past just governments. Socrates wants to prove that justice is something necessary and desired because it is essential and not just a thought that is needed. In doing so…

A demonstration is needed to describe the following correlation between Aristotle's mixed state and the Constitution of 1787(of America.) More precisely, how the Constitution of 1787 can be seen as a implementation of Aristotle’s mixed state. Three examples will be shown to demonstrate three elements of the mixed state. These three elements are the monarchist component, the aristocratic component, and the democratic component. Monarchy starts off as our first component to the mixed state.…