Sunday, March 6, 2011

Read This if you think you know POLITICS

THE USUAL NAMES CONSIDERED FOR RIGHT CONSTITUTIONS ARE AS FOLLOWS

1. Monarchy: aiming at the common interest: kingship.
2. Aristocracy: Rule of more than one man but only a few. (so called either because the best men rule or because it aims at what is best for the state and all its members).
3. Polity: Political control exercised by the mass of the populace in the common interest. (This is the name common to all constitutions. It is reasonable to use this term, because, while it is possible for one man or a few to be outstanding in point if virtue, it is difficult for a larger number to reach a high standard in all forms of virtue – with the conspicuous exception of military virtue, which is found in a great many people. And that is why in this constitution the defensive elements is the most sovereign body, and those who share in the constitution are those who bear arms.

The corresponding deviations are: 
FORM: Kingship: Tyranny
FORM: Aristocracy: Oligarchy
FROM: Polity: Democracy.

Details:

  1. Tyranny is monarchy for the benefit of the monarch
  2. Oligarchy is for the benefit of the people of means
  3. Democracy is for the benefit of the people without means. 
Sadly None of the above three aims to be of profit to the common interest
(Aristotle, Politics)

A man who examines each subject from a philosophical standpoint cannot neglect them: he has to omit nothing, and state the truth about each topic.
(Aristotle, Politics)

Thus it is thought that justice is equality; and so it is, but not for all persons, only for those that are equal. Inequality also is thought to be just; and so it is, but not for all, only for the unequal. We make bad mistakes if we neglect this ‘for whom’ when we are deciding what is just. The reason is that we are making judgments about ourselves, and people are generally bad judges where their own interests are involved.

(Aristotle, Politics)

SO I VOTE FOR THE ISLAMIC SHARI'A