Aristotle on who should be the next American president

Filip Djukic
2 min readDec 21, 2020

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The Greek philosopher, logician, and scientist Aristotle was one of the most influential philosophers ever. Together with his teacher Plato, Aristotle sought to discover the true essence of politics, ethics, and more. Political and social.

According to Aristotle, man is a political animal and cannot be self-sufficient and must act in the community.
Every human being by nature strives for happiness and a good life, and religion helps us with that.
Happiness or a good life depends, according to Aristotle, on virtue, and virtues are positive character traits that determine human behavior. A man can be happy and live well only if he lives a life in harmony with the world.
Aristotle is a philosopher who, unlike other ancient philosophers, understood pluralism in all its forms. Realizing that the diversity of people and society, in general, is something natural, he knew that society is layered.
Aristotle distinguishes the household from the city — that is, the hierarchy and structure. The difference is that there is no equality in the household, so relations are not political, but despotic. Unlike
households surviving because of inequality, the state is based on equality
free citizens.
Freedom is also freedom of speech, whatever it may be. Freedom is also private property. Aristotle, unlike Plato, was aware of the negative effects of collective ownership or community of goods.
He rejects Plato’s utopia of collective ownership and the equalization of people.
These statements of Aristotle and philosophy show us that society — in some segments, especially for itself — is still in a certain community.
This happens because of the healthy individuality that freedom of speech, private property, allows us. Because if we erase those boundaries, man becomes a number machine.
Aristotle understands the world and understands that the only freedom that allows us diversity is real. We are no different if we have pierced lips, hair dyed purple and a multitude of tattoos — we are different when we realize what is true in us. When we seek ourselves spiritually.
Then we know that the good thing is that the first neighbor is different from us, then we realize that pluralism is wealth. What is changing today with the pseudo-philosophy that began with Michel Foucault?
If Aristotle is to be chosen — of course, Trump. Republicans want to talk, lend a hand to others, also preserve their own by respecting others. Together in diversity.

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