DIALECTIC AND ITS ROLE IN ARISTOTLE’S POLITICAL MORPHOLOGY. THE CASE OF DISTINGUISHING OLIGARCHY AND DEMOCRACY

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dc.coverageSTUDIA UBB PHILOSOPHIA, LXI, No. 3, 2016 (p. 23-39)en-US
dc.creatorDREHE, Iovan
dc.date2016-12-30
dc.date.accessioned2026-02-21T10:40:08Z
dc.descriptionDialectic and Its Role in Aristotle’s Political Morphology. The Case of Distinguishing Oligarchy and Democracy. Is the number of rulers an essential criterion in distinguishing democracy from oligarchy? This is an important issue tackled by Aristotle in two places from his Politics (III, 8 and IV, 4), an issue that seems to generate disagreement among scholars. Some believe that number is an essential criterion, i.e. a differentia, others that it is an accident. An attempt to solve this disagreement shall be considered from the perspective of Aristotle’s views on dialectics. I will try to show that even if there is no sufficient proof to mandate the interpretation that the number of rulers is a differentia, this position can be defended to some point. In addition, that it is more likely that he considered number to be a particular type of accident.en-US
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dc.identifierhttps://studia.reviste.ubbcluj.ro/index.php/subbphilosophia/article/view/5260
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14637/1183
dc.languageeng
dc.publisherBabeș-Bolyai University / Cluj University Pressen-US
dc.relationhttps://studia.reviste.ubbcluj.ro/index.php/subbphilosophia/article/view/5260/4969
dc.rightsCopyright (c) 2016 Studia Universitatis Babeș-Bolyai Philosophiaen-US
dc.rightshttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0en-US
dc.sourceStudia Universitatis Babeș-Bolyai Philosophia; Volume 61, No. 3, December 2016; 23-39en-US
dc.source2065-9407
dc.subjectAristotle, democracy, oligarchy, dialectic, number, wealth, differentia, accidenten-US
dc.titleDIALECTIC AND ITS ROLE IN ARISTOTLE’S POLITICAL MORPHOLOGY. THE CASE OF DISTINGUISHING OLIGARCHY AND DEMOCRACYen-US
dc.typeinfo:eu-repo/semantics/article
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dc.typePeer-reviewed Articleen-US
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