POLS 2490 Lecture 17: POLS 2490 LECTURE 17
9 Dec 2017
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One is practical and one is the ideal ideal. It wasn"t fair to plato, what aristotle said. Aristotle wanted to present principles that were natural. In book 3, he moved away from theories of polei, he gave a theoretical approach based on the different types of constitutions. Aristotle talks about citizenship, not everyone can participate. The citizenship and constitution seem to follow the general standard that he described, some are natural and some are perverse. 6 types of constitutions but only 3 are good and natural. With the 3 natural constitutions, while kingship is natural, the conditions for its possibility are rare. Aristocracy is looked at as a kingship, you have to find rare individuals and they have to be created, it would be hard to go looking for them. It needs a lot of ingredients to come together. Polity is also an ideal polis, it"s a practical ideal, not what we wish for.
