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Aristotle
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In all Western philosophy is just a series of footnotes to plato, the notes written by Alexander’s old teacher, Aristotle, were more thorough than most. Aristotle was a lot more practical than Plato. Whereas Plato – who often wanted to just sit and have a good think – liked o talk with his friends. Aristotle preferred measuring and looking at the world. This difference of opinion put plato and Aristotle somewhat at odds. Eventually, in 348 BCE Aristotle left Plato’s Academy. His reasons for doing so aren’t clear. Perhaps he had learned all he could from the school. Maybe it was because he didn’t get along with Palto’s successor, Speusippus. plato.stanford.edu/entries/speusippus It could have been because Athenians were a little bit xenophobic about Macedonians such as Aristotle.. . . Page 20

A Human History of Emotion
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Aristotle’s Policy

Aristotle believed that the polis represented the ideal community for government – politics being literally matters pertaining to the polis.” the best way to rule the polis was via an enlightened monarchy or an aristocracy, but these had a habit of degrading into tyrannies and oligarchies. So he turned to a more limited form of the democracy advocated by Cleisthenes and Pericles. His “polity” mixed the direct participation of citizens (excluding women) with election for roles that required technical expertise (e.g., in military or financial matters). The whole was underpinned by four principles that would protect it from populist demagogues.

MODERATION. Solon’s avoidance of extremes, particularly in wealth and individual expression. At the Delphic Oracle had prescribed: “Nothing in excess.”

A STRONG MIDDLE CLASS to act as a balance between the tyranny of the poor (what democracy risked becoming) and the tyranny of the rich (the main pitfall of oligarchy). In Aristotle’s words: “The great preserving principle that the loyal citizens should be stronger in number than the disloyal.”

A LEGAL SYSTEM that could withstand changes in the political climate: “as man is the best of nimals when perfected, so he is the worst of all when sundered from law and justice.” Laws should be adapted to suit changing conditions, but their purpose was to uphold the constitution, and this should change only rarely.

EDUCATION (paidela) to cultivate

Virtue (arete) and fit citizens for participation in the government of the polis and imbue them with law-abidingness (eunomia) ~ Page 43

THE SHORTEST HISTOFY OF GREECE
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. . . According to Aristotle, then, when audiences go to see Euripides’s play, they feel with Bellerophon, www.worldhistory.org/Bellerophon experience his pity for human suffering and his fear that the gods may not exist or care for justice. And then the audience go home and resume their ordinary lives. Poetry helps, not only by providing emotional release, but also abstracting from daily life and reflecting on the human condition in general, within the self-contained circumstances of the theater. Aristotle insists that poetry is more philosophical than history, opening broader vistas for the mind. It depicts “not what happened, but the kind of thing that could happen, that is to say: what can happen according to probability or necessity” ~ Page 86 (From the Gods of Olympus” Barbara Graziosi - Authoress

The Gods of Olympus - A HISTORY
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