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If I would have to take a career with big public responsibilities, I would choose to have Aristotle as a political/ philosophical mentor to guide me to always take the best possible decision. Choosing Aristotle as a mentor to myself will be a great advantage for me and for the public that I would be serving. I do adapt some of Aristotle’s ideas such as being literal while some other criticize him by saying that his measurement is inaccurate here because politics in the strict sense of legislative science is a form of practical knowledge, while craft is like architecture or medicine, that is, forms of productive knowledge; however, the comparison is so valid that the politician produces, On a legal system in accordance with the overall principles. I also agree with him on that One can also explain the existence of a city state by the four same reasons. It is a kind of group (koinonia), a group of parts that have certain functions and common interests. I It thus consists of parts described by Aristotle in many contexts, Family, or economic classes the poor and the rich. However, the state of the city ultimately consists of individual citizens, apart from the natural resources - the "materials" or …show more content…

Aristotle also gave the individual the freedom and independency to enjoy the state and what it has to offer him/her. Aristotle also differs from Plato in that he did not establish a strict system for the virtuous city, because he sees that the city system varies according to time and place. But he divided the types of cities into six sections, three of which are virtuous, and three others are opposed to them: Al-Rashad City, which is the government of the righteous individual who is superior to his mind and wisdom. But his rule does not last long. If the state of tyranny is corrupted, it is ruled by an oppressive

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