Sylvia Plath

Sylvia Plath

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Cris Gonzalez Dr. Laufenberg History of Law and Its’ Medieval Past 15 September 2008 Influential Thinkers of All Time What Plato and Aristotle did not agree on was how the Government should be controlled. “…the best political community is formed by citizens of the middle class, and that those states are likely to be well-administered in which the middle class is large, and stronger if possible than both the other classes…the middle class prevents either of the extremes from being dominant” (Hayden/Aristotle 32). With this said, Aristotle believed that the only way the government would be balanced was if the middle class took charge in making executive decisions because both the very rich and very poor would by bias and partial to any decision that benefited themselves rather than other. Aristotle said that because the very poor were so desperate for money or food, they would completely run the government in the ground since they were left wanting. He also said the rich would have the same effect on the government because they would want even more money and power that was attainable. “ For Tyranny is a kind of monarchy which has in view the interest of the monarch only; oligarchy has in view the interest of the wealthy; democracy, of the needy: none of them the common good of all…” (Hayden/Aristotle 29) Aristotle believed in no other form of government but his own since his was the only government that compensated for the common good of all. I do not agree with Aristotle’s theory of the middle-class making the executive decisions regarding all the classes because they themselves can also be bias towards a specific decision that could benefit their social class somewhat more than others. Plato did not agree with Aristotle’s convictions towards government. He believed that a small class of the wisest individuals of a specific society should make all executive decisions. “Will not the guardians be the smallest of all the classes who receive a name from the...

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