machiavelli, Aristotle, August

ure of things. Everything natural has the tendency to require more power. This is the natural order of animals, plants and everything else in nature. The nobles are the one closest to the prince, they may have help the prince rise to his power however, the prince can not trust the nobles for they to have the same desires as he does however, unlike the people the nobles are in position to replace the prince and it is just natural tendencies that drives the nobles to do so.
             Aristotle also believed in natural progression. He believed that we are social beings and that we are able to rationalize our behavior through our speech. Humans need the interactions between each other to maintain a state. "In the first place there must be a union of those who cannot exist without each other, namely of male and female, that the race may continue (and this is a union which is formed, not of choice, but because, in common with other animals and with plants, mankind have a natural desire to leave behind them an image of themselves.)" (Politics bkIch2ln 26-31 p385). The state is a development from the family through the community, which is an extent of the family. This is form naturally because of human nature and our natural tendency to want security. "For everyone always acts in order to obtain that which they think good. But, if all communities aim at some good, the state or political community, which is the highest of all, and which embraces all the rest, aims at good in a greater degree than any other, and at the highest good" (Politics bkIch1ln 5-10 p.385). The state is a social contract that the people enter into. It provide security and the people prov
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