My Theory

A composition of one's own political ideology is a complex task to accomplish. It takes meaningful observation of one's present society, the ideologies of past philosophers, and a fusing of different beliefs to offer a better one. It would model Marx's dialectic of having an old order (thesis) to fuse with the new order (antithesis) to form a combination (synthesis).(Brown) This is my humble synthesis of political theories to my own shaping of society.
    First, society would be considered to be a living body. Too much focus has been on individualism and not enough on societal well being. Each human is a cell in the body of a society. This is concurrent with the philosophy of Aristotle.(Jowett) The state is a development from the family through the village community, an offshoot of the family. Formed originally for the satisfaction of natural wants, it exists afterwards for moral ends and for the promotion of the higher life. The state in fact is no mere local union for the prevention of wrong doing, and the convenience of exchange. It is also no mere institution for the protection of goods and property. It is a genuine moral organization for advancing the development of humans.
     The communal ownership of wives and property as sketched by Plato in the Republic rests on a false conception of political society. For, the state is not a homogeneous unity, as Plato believed, but rather is made up of dissimilar elements.(Arnhart) The classification of constitutions is based on the fact that government may be exercised either for the good of the governed or of the governing, and may be either concentrated in one person or shared by a few or by the many. There are thus three true forms of government: monarchy, aristocracy, and const ...
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