The beliefs of Aristotle, Socrates and Plato have evident similarities especially in their denunciation of democracy for the State. Socrates' views expressed and written by his student Plato are largely philosophical in nature and promotes the idea of questioning life to achieve insight. Philosophers who possess absolute truth are best equipped to govern society according to Plato and his Allegory of the Cave. In contrast, Aristotle takes a more political scientific approach by discussing and analyzing various constitutions to determine the best form of government, where rational beings in a society are the natural rulers. Aristotle promotes the idea of government based on law rather than simple superiority. Differences in these beliefs are important because of the implications of Aristotle's writings, which provide citizens and statesmen with a way to use philosophy in politics and the state. As a result, information in Politics is seen again throughout modern politics. The similarities between the beliefs of Aristotle expressed through his writings in Politics and the beliefs of Plato and Socrates expressed in the recorded dialogues of The Republic center primarily on the fear of democracy. Aristotle states that only those who care about virtue and good government should be the leaders of a society or community (Politics, 80). In Book III of Politics Aristotle describes what the role of the majority should be in politics. Also through these considerations one could solve the problem mentioned above and also the related one of what the free should have authority over, that is, let's say, the multitude of citizens who are not rich and have no rights arising from virtue. Because it wouldn't be... a means of paper... archy and democracy transformed into a political system. Through this idea of dealing with factions and political interdependence Aristotle outlines the path to an enduring state. In Federalist 10, Madison similarly describes that competing factions imposing a system of checks and balances can protect against domination by a single faction or class. Aristotle's statements about law, constitution, political system, factions, and citizenship are all comparable to many notions of political life, even his justification of slavery is reminiscent of the views of some founding fathers. Aristotle discovered and outlined many elements of early American political thought long before the existence of the United States. Aristotle himself said: “In practice, all things have been discovered, even if some have not been collected, and others are known but not used” (Politics, 34).
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