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Problems of Government 131 and economic entities within the state, even sometimes in conflict with the state, are seen as the me ...

Authority vs Freedom The problem of freedom and authority, once again, cannot be dealt with in the extreme. Total freedom is ana ...

Problems of Government 133 philosophical rather than political question of freedom and authority. Regardless of the form a gover ...

sured, is more probable. Finally, it should be noted that the fact is in most countries there are many combinations of separatio ...

Problems of Government 135 Large State vs Small State The question at issue about the size of the state like all the issues befo ...

136 Political Theory: The Relationship of Man and the State at least in Europe, have been the great cultural divisions, the reli ...

Problems of Government 137 So, we have briefly examined the five great issues of govern­ ment. As we examine the political views ...

CHAPTER 15 Plato and Aristotle: Utopia and Polity Plato (427-347 B.C.) The state, to Plato, is a natural institution. It arises ...

Plato and Aristotle 139 farmers, merchants, laborers, and craftsmen, were meant to develop the virtue of temperance. This pyrami ...

140 Political Theory: The Relationship of Man and the State charge would decide who would mate and when for purposes of procreat ...

Plato and Aristotle 141 taking four basic forms, each imperfect, and also tending to move in a cyclical manner. They are: Timocr ...

nity, which is the highest of all, which embraces all the rest, aims at a good in a greater degree that any other, and at the hi ...

Plato and Aristotle 143 are Monarchy (rule of the one), Aristocracy (rule of the few), and Polity or constitutional form (rule o ...

144 Political Theory: The Relationship of Man and the State who is educated, has the time for civic duties, and is, in fact, vir ...

Plato and Aristotle 145 Aristotle’s general view of the role of law in society tended to be based on a generally conservative vi ...

CHAPTER 16 Augustine and Aquinas: Platonist and Aristotelian St. Augustine (A.D. 354-430) St. Augustine was born in Tagaste, Nor ...

Augustine and Aquinas 147 of the “Two Cities,” the City of God and the City of Man, is his interpretation of the history of the ...

divine intervention that it was created, and by man’s social nature that it endures. And by virtue of men’s choices there are tw ...

Augustine and Aquinas 149 punishment the state imposes. How similar to Socrates, who violated the state’s law for “God’s sake” a ...

If a citizen of the City of God should come to rule, he has a number of responsibilities. He first has the duty to earthly peace ...