KINGSHIP, DEMOCRACY, THE RULE OF LAW,

AND THE BEST REGIME IN ARISTOTLE'S POLTIICAL PHILOSOPHY


Clifford Angell Bates, Jr. Ph.D.








IN MEMORY OF MELVIN E. BRADFORD


A TRUE DEFENDER OF THE REPUBLIC AND ITS CONSTITUTION






Soldiers, March! we shall not fight again

The Yankees with our guns well-aimed and rammed--

All are born Yankees of the race of men

And this, too, now the country of the damned.

Allan Tate, To the Lacedemonians 81-84.





INTRODUCTION




I: THE CITY, THE CITIZEN AND THE REGIME


1. THE CITY


2. THE CITIZEN


3. THE REGIME






II: THE FIRST PEAK: POPULAR RULE


4. ARISTOCRACY AS THE BEST REGIME


5. THE PROBLEMS WITH POLITEIA AS POLITY


6. THE POLITICAL EXCELLENCE OF THE MANY


7. DOES ARISTOTLE UNDERRATE DEMOCRACY?






III:

THE SECOND PEAK: THE THREE LOGOI OF THE PAMBASILEIA




EPILOGUE






BIBILOGRAPHY


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