Aristotle

1.What makes a state, according to Aristotle? What is the difference between a state and an alliance? Looking especially at 1.1-2 and 111.9. When can we say that a stale actually ‘exists’ according to Aristotle? What is his answer to these questions, and what does it tell us about what he thinks a state is? 2.What are the democratic and oligarchic ideas ofjustice? in what way does equality demand equals be treated ‘equally’? How do ‘unequals need to be treated unequally”? Looking at Book Three, primarily chapter 9, what are the errors that oligarchy and democracy make about justice? How should people be treated to be treated justly? 3.Aristotle asks about what kind of government is best to rule. What does he think about the rule of the many—what we call ‘democracy’? Is it a better or a worse rule than the rule of a chosen few or a single man? Consider what he says about democracy primarily in chapters 7-1 1 in Book Three. Aristotle compares the rule of a king and the rule of law in the second half of book III. What is the `rule of law”? Why does Aristotle suggest that it might be better than the rule of a king? What is 4.Aristotle’s eventual conclusion about the relative merits or the rule. of law and the rule of a king? Why does he think this? What do you think about his arguments and conclusions?