POL200Y5 Lecture Notes - Oligarchy
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Pure sociability, pleasure of interacting with other human beings. Do all regimes aspire for the same goals? no. The number of leaders: one, few, or many (3) Further divided into the regimes that strive for the common goal or not (another. Kingships have one leader who rules for the benefit of all. Tyrannies have one leader who rules for the benefit of the leader alone. We tend to believe only democracies work for the common good. Obviously this is false, there are a few. Ex. the canadian charter was put in place to protect the rights of minorities against majority rule. Aristotle is against the rule of the majority because of this, almost as much as he is against the other regimes. So democracy is the best of the 3 deviant regimes. Aristocracy means rule of the best/ or for the best. Aristotle notices the problem with the or in the definition.
