 | Thomas A. Spragens - 1990 - 304 pages
...to the requisites of rational dialogue, a rational society can concur with Aristotle's view that "it is therefore the greatest of blessings for a state...its members should possess a moderate and adequate property."14 In middle-class societies, citizens stand on the roughly level ground necessary to address... | |
 | Thomas A. Spragens - 1999 - 300 pages
...highly contentious and unstable for some of the reasons canvassed earlier. "It is," writes Aristotle, "the greatest of blessings for a state that its members should possess a moderate and adequate property. . . . Where the middle class is large, there is least likelihood of faction and dissension among the... | |
 | Edward Wayne Younkins - 2005 - 404 pages
...all, unless the necessary conditions are present" (Pol: I, 4, 1253b 25). He also contends that "it is therefore the greatest of blessings for a state...its members should possess a moderate and adequate fortune" (Pol: IV, 11, 1296a 1). Happiness is an activity in conformity with virtue, and, "Still, happiness,... | |
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It is therefore the greatest of blessings for a state that its members should possess a moderate and adequate property. Where some have great possessions, and others have nothing at all, the result is either an extreme democracy or an unmixed oligarchy;... 