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This 6 page paper delves into Politics and Nicomachean Ethics as well as writings about Aristotle. It thoroughly examines the concept of democracy with a focus on what Aristotle believed. Bibliography lists 7 sources.
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begins. That turning point comes when we move beyond questions of individual conduct to consider the nature of human collectivities and our membership in them." (qtd. in Zimmerman, 1995, p.86).
Indeed, ethics and politics are intertwined but politics are not always ethical and Aristotle realized that early on. To Aristotle, the polis represented an end, that was both the
ultimate developed form and the goal of earlier forms of association which were constituted by the family and the village (Hartog, 1994). Since Aristotle identified an entitys end with its
nature, it has been noted that the city existed by nature and that man was actually a political animal in the Aristotelian sense (1994). A living creature had been designed
to achieve its perfection within and only within the Greek polis, and also was the only living creature endowed with logos (1994). Logos is the capacity to distinguish and express
the just and the unjust and it was this capacity that made possible both the family and its logical and moral antecedent, which was in essence, the natural and
perfect community of the city (1994). The death of Socrates in 399 BC marked a break between the political and contemplative life, and it was on this that Plato based
his philosophical oeuvre (1994). He was not only a disciple of Socrates but a diehard adversary of the Athenian democracy that condemned his mentor to death (1994). To understand why
this is important, one would have to know about the trial of Socrates in which he received the death penalty. In any event, it is this picking apart of democracy
that is also characteristic of Aristotelian thought. How did Aristotle consider democracy and the rule of law? Throughout his Politics, the author addresses a variety of topics. In Book Four
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