Premium Content How Aristotle and Machiavelli Use the Middle Class and the Masses to Achieve Stable Political Organizations
By Jessica Hindman - November 14, 2000
Note: The copy of Politics used for this paper is not the standard copy. I have tried to be as specific about passages as possible.
Aristotle and Machiavelli both extol the judgement of the masses on political affairs. Aristotle states that the "many...may surpass - collectively and as a body, though not individually - the quality of the few best…
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