a particular form or system of government: civil polity; ecclesiastical polity. ... the condition of being constituted as a state or other organized community or body: The polity of ancient Athens became a standard for later governments.
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Some scholars have argued that the regime called polity provides the key to understanding Aristotle s ideal of political rule. This view however tends to underplay a distinction Aristotle makes between polity and so-called aristocracy. ... "Aristotle on Polity and So-called Aristocracy: The Problem of Virtue in...
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established service aristocracy, but also by the intentions and activities of other powerholders in the semi-imperial polity and the subcontinental ...
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"Aristocracy": rule by the best (aristos). In practice this usually meant rule by the well-born, those of noble family, who referred to themselves as "the best people". ... Aristotle uses "polity" both in that way, as the generic name for a constitution of any sort, and as the name of one of the sorts. One of the kinds...
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Some Aristotle scholars claim that the regime of Politics 7 is not an aristocracy, but a "polity" or the "so-called" mixed regime.(3) ... Those who argue that the best regime of Politics 7-8 is a "polity" have a difficult case to make. Their arguments are problematic in that they tend not to explain why, if the regime of Book...
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'The best form of government except for all the others' ... really? This second Critique of Democracy actually compares democracy to two governmental alternatives, autocracy and aristocracy. ... Through the idle musings of pundit democrats, democracy now stays in the fight with aristocracy, shadowboxing, as if rule by...
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Fred D. Miller , Jr. ... Aristotle's constitutional theory applies his theory of justice and rights to the unifying institutions of the polis (city-state). He defines a citizen as one who has a liberty right to partake in deliberative or judicial office. ... Miller, Fred D. JrProfessor and Executive Director,
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Aristotle's constitutional theory applies his theory of justice and rights to the unifying institutions of the polis (city-state). He defines a citizen as one who has a liberty right to partake in deliberative or judicial office. ... In Politics IV, Aristotle develops a more complicated system ... Source: Nature, Justice,
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Garrison Keillor's Take on UU Sainthood ... Garrison Keillor was at his best this weekend, from Bismarck, North Dakota. Before getting into content, let me just say that as a member of a family that suffers with and dies from strokes, large and small, he is a living symbol of hope around ... That he could suffer a little stroke,
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and more desirable principle, which by its superior virtues has supplanted the former, but of a struggle between the principle of aristocracy and its representatives, or, in other words, of Aristocracy versus the Aristocrats.
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