Aristocracy: The Types Of Oligarchy And Democracy

There is also a wide variety of oligarchies. In one type there is an arrangement where there are a few property requirements in order to be in office, other arrangements require that the son has to succeed the father, in others the officials rule rather than the law. As stated in the Aristotle’s Politics “it is evident, then, that those regimes which look to the common advantage are correct regimes according to what is unqualifiedly just, while those which look only to the advantage of the rulers are errant, and are all deviations from the correct regimes; for they involve mastery, but the city is a community of free persons.” (Lord, 2013, 1279a-18)

There has not been a true pure polity regime that has existed throughout the centuries. The

Without the two, a city will not be able to be properly managed if it is not run as an aristocratically. Aristocracy 's defining principle is virtue, oligarchy 's is wealth, and democracy 's is freedom. The “deviations of those mentioned are tyranny from kingship, oligarchy from aristocracy, democracy from polity. Tyranny is monarch with a view to the advantage for the monarch, oligarchy rile with a view to the advantage of the well off, democracy rule with a view on the advantage of those who are poor; none of them is with a view to the common gain.” (Lord, 2013,

This can be as little as making assemblies open to the public, but they would charge a fee in order to allow people to attend. On the other hand, democracies have counter devices compared to the oligarchies. This can be something like paying the poor to attend an assembly. A polity ought to be ruled by those possessing heavy arms. The poor will not object from not having the ability to rule provided that they are not treated contemptuously or deprived of their property. Many regimes that once were polities became democracies, this is largely due to city sizes increasing over the years, more people shared in ruling as the size of the city