Aristotle's Theory on the Mixed Spartan Regime and the Athenian Father-State

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Published: Jun 18, 2018
DOI: https://doi.org/10.12681/conatus.16032
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mixed regime ideals Aristotle city-state oligarchy
Eleni Krikona
National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1215-2186
Abstract
Aristotle shifts the criteria for characterizing the nature of a regime from those that determine the political status of a city (criteria for inclusion in the political body and city authorities) into the nature of the institutions and the balancing of the political powers of the heterogeneous parts of a city. This leads to two new types of "mixed" Democracy, which are widely presented to converge, and, as I will claim in this paper, are not essentially different from moderate oligarchy.
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Eleni Krikona, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
Εθνικό και Καποδιστριακό Πανεπιστήμιο Αθηνών
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