Aristocracy: The Similarities Between Democracy And Monarchy

I will first describe the meaning of each phrase and then I will compare them.

Monarchy is when all the discussions about a polis/state were controlled from the one person that had the power.

Aristocracy is a small group of people, the “elites” of a particular polis/state and the most wealthy ones. It is up to them to have the discussions of the polis/state. Usually the decisions were taken mostly for their benefit.

Tyranny is when a person takes the control of the entire polis by force.

Oligarchy is a group of people that takes control of a polis. It is usually a small group of the wealthiest.

Democracy is when people themselves make the discussions about their polis. They also vote for who they want or believe that might be appropriate to make their place better.

As you can see monarchy and tyranny are very similar; however was often the same because monarchy was always passed from father to

Democracy is the fairest system by far; compare to the other 4 political systems.

Because people were active to vote, discus for their laws and try to find the most benefit way for the entire polis and not only for the wealthy people.

In my opinion Democracy is the best system even if it is often been accused in our centuries.

Democracy is a system entirely structured from people who make the democracy as much as the democracy makes people, so that makes it a very unique, well designed and good system. But it has one great weakness; when the people who rule the polis lack of virtue education the society corrupts and leads the people into a destruction.

That is what Socrates could see; that peoples forget what a true virtue is and they run after “wealth” and “power” . Hie spent his entire life trying to change the people and make them see what the true virtue and happiness is.

Thats why that democracy in Athens turns to be her