PHIL 1010 Lecture 16: Lecture 16 November 7th 2016

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Philosophy
• Course: PHIL 1010
• Professor: Kyle Bromhall

Document Summary

Democracy: the system of government in which citizens exercise political power. How we turn the principles into actions. Dictatorship + monarchy + tyranny: not a lot separating them besides the fact that a monarchy has a hereditary part to it. Communism: one party system, they make all the political systems, members of the political party are able to make decisions and have power. Aristocracy: group of powerful people are in power. Plato identifies 5 forms of government aristocracy, timocracy, oligarchy, democracy and ty(cid:396)a(cid:374)(cid:374)y (cid:894)listed (cid:271)est to (cid:449)o(cid:396)st f(cid:396)o(cid:373) plato"s pe(cid:396)spe(cid:272)ti(cid:448)e(cid:895) Each will get corrupted and move down. Aristocracy gets corrupted and turns into a timocracy, then turns into an oligarchy and so on. Timocracy: ruled by the warriors, honour bound system, but it is powered by the rich the ones who came out of the aristocracy on top, will finance and declare the wars, modelled after.