Aristotle's Best Regime: Kingship, Democracy, and the Rule of Law

by Clifford Angell Bates Jr.

Book Overview

The collapse of the Soviet Union and other Marxist regimes around the world seems to have left liberal democracy as the only surviving ideology, and yet many scholars of political thought still find liberal democracy objectionable, using Aristotle's Politics to support their views. In this detailed analysis of Book 3 of Aristotle's work, Clifford Angell Bates, Jr., challenges these scholars, demonstrating that Aristotle was actually a defender of...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0807128333
• ISBN13: 9780807128336
• Release Date: December 2002
• Publisher: LSU Press
• Length: 234 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.5" x 9.2"