In our polarized, nominally democratic, political processes, there are a number of things that often get lost. In my view, Aristotle sets his finger right on one of these, in a distinction he makes at a number of places in his works, most explicitly in the Politics. One can analyze contemporary politics in terms of an ongoing, argumentative clash between the interests of those who possess wealth, on the one side, and the many, who tend to be poor but also free, on the other.  ...
Published on November 06, 2016 13:48