Aristotle's "Best Regime" : Kingship, Democracy, and the Rule of Law /

The collapse of the Soviet Union and other Marxist regimes around the world seems to have left liberal democracy as the only surviving ideology, and yet many scholars of political thought still find liberal democracy objectionable, using Aristotle's Politics to support their views. In this deta...

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Détails bibliographiques
Auteur principal: Bates, Clifford Angell
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, 2003.
Collection:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Sujets:
Aristotle.
Aristotle. > Politics. > Book 3.
Aristotle > Political and social views.
Politics (Aristotle)
Regle de droit.
Rule of law.
Political and social views.
Democracy.
PHILOSOPHY > Political.
Electronic books.
Accès en ligne:Texto completo
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Résumé:The collapse of the Soviet Union and other Marxist regimes around the world seems to have left liberal democracy as the only surviving ideology, and yet many scholars of political thought still find liberal democracy objectionable, using Aristotle's Politics to support their views. In this detailed analysis of Book 3 of Aristotle's work, Clifford Angell Bates, Jr., challenges these scholars, demonstrating that Aristotle was actually a defender of democracy.Proving the relevance of classical political philosophy to modern democratic problems, Bates argues that Aristotle not only defends popular.
Description matérielle:1 online resource (234 pages).
ISBN:9780807152386

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