Politics

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Scheme of forms of rule
according to Aristotle
Number of
rulers		 legitimate rule illegitimate rule
Sole power monarchy Tyranny
Group domination aristocracy oligarchy
Majority rule Politics democracy

The polity ( Greek  πολιτεία politeía ) is, according to Aristotle, the name of a community that is guided by the rational or reasonable person to its members and directed. In Aristotle's politics , politics is one of the good forms of rule ; it is legitimate majority rule .

According to the first doctrine of the form of the state in the politics of Aristotle (Arist. Pol. III 6 ff.) It is one of the three good constitutions. The contrast to politics is poor democracy . In the second doctrine of the form of the state (based on empirical observations: Arist. Pol. IV and VI) the politics is a mixed constitution between the oligarchy and the democracy, whereby the officials are to be elected (and not by lot, as in the democracy of Athens ), however There should be no or only a low barrier to the admission of voters (this in turn based on democracy).

Politie is further described in literature on Aristotle's politics .

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