We Should Aim Rather At Leveling Down

It Is Evident That The State Is A Creation Of Nature, And That Man Is By Nature A Political Animal.

The Coward Calls The Brave Man Rash, The Rash Man Calls Him A Coward.

The Pleasures Arising From Thinking And Learning Will Make Us Think And Learn All The More. 1153a 23

These, Then, Are The Four Kinds Of Royalty. First The Monarchy Of The Heroic Ages; This Was Exercised Over Voluntary Subjects, But Limited To Certain Functions; The King Was A General And A Judge, And Had The Control Of Religion The Second Is That Of The Barbarians, Which Is A Hereditary Despotic Government In Accordance With Law. A Third Is The Power Of The So-called Aesynmete Or Dictator; This Is An Elective Tyranny. The Fourth Is The Lacedaemonian, Which Is In Fact A Generalship, Hereditary And Perpetual.

[this Element], The Seat Of The Appetites And Of Desire In General, Does In A Sense Participate In Principle, As Being Amenable And Obedient To It