Monarchy Aristocracy Tyranny and Democracy Essay

part of a noble Athenian lineage, although as time went on, an admiration for Sparta began to grow in Plato’s ideal state or government. This tendency to Sparta would have been caused by the trial of his teacher, Socrates, in which the Athenian democracy condemned him to kill himself by drinking hemlock poison due to accusations of impiety and corrupting the youth in Athens. Another reason of why Plato based his political ideas on Sparta is because he saw the Spartan government as a more…

good governments, according to Aristotle, are aristocracy, polity and monarchy. Aristocracy is the rule by the virtuous few, monarchy is rule by one great leader whose best interest is the good for the community and polity is the rule and polity is the rule by the middle constitutions that involves ruling by a large number of individuals who are both rich and poor. On the other hand, the bad form of government is Tyranny, Oligarchy and Democracy. Tyranny is rule by one leader who submits to his…

American colonists began an intellectual environment, which would lead to a new sense of political and social identity. Americas’ Ideology through the Founders Eyes The Founders known as the Framers came to America from England, ruled by a monarchy named King George. A few other Founders were James Madison, General George Washington, George Mason IV, Benjamin Franklin,…

Winston Churchill has been quoted, “…Democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried.” If democracy is the best of the worst alternatives, why do the majority of countries in the western hemisphere have a democratic system? Isn’t there a better choice out there that would benefit people? And because democracy is governed by the people, what makes the average citizen participate in government and what influences them to vote? Democracy originated in Athens,…

much due to the size, climate, economy and the traditions of the state. Democracy’s he stated worked best for small homogenous populations and that monarchies were best for large diverse empires. Baron Montesquieu was also the reason for the separation of powers. He believed that a system that mixed each form of government monarchy, aristocracy and democracy. He believed that this mix could prevent the absolutism that had occurred in his home country of France. In 1748, the Baron de Montesquieu…

Plato’s critique of democracy in Republic For as long as human society has existed, there has always been a search for the” best” or most optimal forms of organization of human life within a political community. Despite many controversies related to the concept of democracy, so far democracy is considered to be one of the most optimal and most thoroughly conceptualized way of organizing a political community. Since the rise of first societies people searched for relevant rules that would…

Aristotle’s constitutional cycle. The three good constitutions, monarchy, aristocracy, and democracy, can simply transition to their bad counterparts, tyranny, oligarchy, and anarchy. Machiavelli deviates away from Aristotle and Plato in proposing democracy as a good constitution. He believes that the good constitutions cannot last independently. Therefore, Machiavelli proposes a mixed constitution: a monarchy, aristocracy, and democracy. This is because in Rome, “the blending of these estates…

of government and the state of humanity within from the perspectives of a teacher and his pupil, Plato and Aristotle respectively. Even though both of these men were Athenian citizens during the world’s first democracy, they both identified similar flaws in the state of Democracy. Democracy, in Greek society, was when natural-born male citizens made decisions in government, all with equal say, because they all fought together. However, though it seemed like a fair form of rule, both Plato and…

misunderstood permeated in the very foundations of ordinary states. Inequality is the result of bad and over-simplistic ideas about justice. These ideas have consequences, and many times lead to revolutions. Nor democracy nor Oligarchy are excluded from the possibility and reality of revolutions. Democracy, however, being by definition formed by the idea of making everyone equals, is considered by Aristotle to be more stable than Oligarchy, which is lead by extreme views of equality that result…

‘Politics’ the best form of democracy and the best form of oligarchy seem to be highly similar. In order to fully understand these forms of government one must be able to further understand certain topics mentioned in book IV of the ‘Politics’. First, one must comprehend the analogy of gymnastics with politics and why Aristotle used this example. Secondly, the bad forms of oligarchy and democracy and why they are bad. Finally, the good forms of oligarchy and democracy and what these superior…