Aristotle's Political Theory

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" Aristotle presented in his works a compendium of the knowledge of his time and examined issues and facts to discover how things worked, what was believed about them, and also to separate this knowledge into categories. He did not do this simply as a compiler but filtered what he found through his own sensibilities and philosophical thought. He examined the different Greek states and the way these states were structured and how they operated, and from this he determined what sort of government would work best. He did this, however, based on his view of what the proper goal of a state should be. His major interest was in ethical philosophy, and the operation of the state thus was considered in terms of its goals or ends, known as the teleological approach. A democratic theorist would view politics in terms of some form of representative government, with.."

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