 ... than both the other classes, or at any rate than either singly; for the addition of the middle class turns the scale, and prevents either of the extremes from being dominant. Great then is the good fortune of a State in which the citizens have a moderate...  Introduction and translation - Page 128by Aristotle, Benjamin Jowett - 1885Full view - About this book
 | Aristotle, Benjamin Jowett - 1885 - 466 pages
...the . . .. . , ., . state, and is formed by citizens of the m1ddle class, and that those extremes°"1 states are likely to be well-administered, in which...I will explain the reason of this hereafter, when n I speak of the revolutions of states*. The mean condition of states is clearly best, for no other... | |
 | Aristotle - 1885 - 476 pages
...fortune of a state in which the citizens have a moderate and sufficient property; for where some 1296 x possess much, and the others nothing, there may arise...of an oligarchy; but it is not so likely to arise out/of a middle and nearly equal condition. I will explain the reason of this hereafter, when u I speak... | |
 | Aristotle - 1885 - 464 pages
...of a state in which the citizens have a moderate and sufficient property; for where some 1296possess much, and the others nothing, there may arise an extreme...pure oligarchy; or a tyranny may grow out of either extreme,—either out of the most rampant democracy, or out of an oligarchy; but it is not so likely... | |
 | Plato - 1899 - 514 pages
...good fortune of a State in which the citizens have a moderate and sufficient property ; for where some possess much, and the others nothing, there may arise...I will explain the reason of this hereafter, when I speak of the revolutions of States. The mean condition of States is clearly best, for no other is... | |
 | Benjamin Jowett - 1899 - 480 pages
...good fortune of a State in which the citizens have a moderate and sufficient property; for where some possess much, and the others nothing, there may arise...pure oligarchy ; or a tyranny may grow out of either extreme—either out of the most rampant democracy, or out of an oligarchy; but it is not so likely... | |
 | James Hervey Hyslop - 1903 - 502 pages
...good fortune of a state in which the citizens have a moderate and sufficient property; for where some possess much, and the others nothing, there may arise...nearly equal condition. I will explain the reason THE BEST AND SAFEST GOVERNMENT. A DEMOCRACY WITH THE MIDDLE CLASS PREPONDERATING. " The mean condition... | |
 | Francis William Coker - 1914 - 608 pages
...good fortune of a state in which the citizens have a moderate and sufficient property; for where some possess much, and the others nothing, there may arise...I will explain the reason of this hereafter, when I speak of the revolutions of states. The mean condition of states is clearly best, for no other is... | |
 | Aristotle - 1921 - 472 pages
...fortune of a state in which the citizens have 1296* a moderate and sufficient property ; for where some possess much, and the others nothing, there may arise...oligarchy ; but it is not so likely to arise out of the middle constitutions and those 5 akin to them. I will explain the reason of this hereafter, when... | |
 | R. W. LIVINGSTONE - 1924 - 476 pages
...good fortune of a state in which the citizens have a moderate and sufficient property ; for where some possess much, and the others nothing, there may arise...oligarchy ; or a tyranny may grow out of either extreme ; but it is not so likely to arise out of the middle constitutions and those akin to them.1 Aristotle's... | |
 | Joseph Alexander Leighton - 1926 - 612 pages
...State in which the citizens have moderate and sufficient property ; for where some possess much, and others nothing, there may arise an extreme democracy,...oligarchy; or a tyranny may grow out of either extreme." 1 Aristotle calls a democracy a State in which the poor and the propertyless rule; an oligarchy, one... | |
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