Aristotle

According to the Greek philosopher Aristotle, democracy was self-government among equals, who rule and are ruled in turn. In his Politics, he wrote that the Greek city-state was the highest form of human community, and that man can live the highest form of life as a citizen of a city-state. In the many Greek city-states that existed at the time of Aristotle, democracy had evolved as a means of self-government through an assembly of equal male citizens who gathered for the purpose of discussing some matter, putting different opinions to the vote, and deciding, often by a majority of raised hands, what course of action was to be taken.

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Chemistry; Political Science; Essence (philosophy); Republic; Aristotle; Greek City-State; Democracy; Philosophy, Western; Philosophy, Greek

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