EVERY STATE is a community of some kind, and every community is established with a view to some good; for mankind always act in order to obtain that which they think good. But, if all communities aim at some good, the state or political community, which is the highest of all, and which embraces all the rest, aims at good in a greater degree than any other, and at the highest good.
Some people think that the qualifications of a statesman, king, householder, and master are the same, and that they differ, not in kind, but only in the number of their subjects. For example, the ruler over a few is called a master; over more, the manager of a household; over a still larger number, a statesman or king, as if there were no difference between a great household and a small state. The distinction which is made between the king and the statesman is as follows: When the government is personal, the ruler is a king; when, according to the rules of the political science, the citizens rule and are ruled in turn, then he is called a statesman.
But all this is a mistake; for governments differ in kind, as will be evident to any one who considers the matter according to the method which has hitherto guided us. As in other departments of science, so in politics, the compound should always be resolved into the simple elements or least parts of the whole. We must therefore look at the elements of which the state is composed, in order that we may see in what the different kinds of rule differ from one another, and whether any scientific result can be attained about each one of them.
我叫趙甲第(原名:老子是癩蛤蟆)
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昆侖紀元,分治天下的九大門派為新一屆盟主之位明爭暗斗,關外,薩教蠻族卷土重來……亂世中,蕓蕓眾生百態沉浮,九大家英杰輩出,最終匯成一首大江湖時代的磅礴史詩,并推動天下大勢由分治走向大一統。
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超人氣作家七英俊腦洞力作!腦洞奇詭的反套路宮廷文,反轉到后一刻!穿進網文小說,成為暴君的枕邊人是種什么樣的體驗?經過簡單的計算,庾晚音得出結論:自己只能另辟蹊徑。在這個全員惡人的故事里,她想殺出一條血路,就得當最大的那個惡人,先幫助暴君干死端王,然后再干死暴君,直接當女帝。可當她見到了暴君,仔細琢磨他一言一行中那一絲詭異的似曾相識的感覺,終于忍不住試探道:“Howareyou?”夏侯澹沉默良久,眼眶一紅。“I'mfine,andyou?”
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