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A small part of "Nicomachean Ethics" on the subject of justice. It's sad that many people today are so ignorant that they believe themselves to be so more...smart and educated that they don't need to listen to a guy who already died more than 2000 years ago!
Could there be a more clear sign of genius than the ability to create what has timeless value? To create timeless knowledge, a philosopher has to reach out to the absolute truth, for only truth does never change, and thus never looses it’s value. That’s what constitutes the main difference between a philosopher and a mere ideologist, the “truth” of the ideologist has constantly to be re-adjusted whenever it comes in contact with reality, the unchanging object of knowledge, or whenever time went by and changed the external appearances, the ever changing object of ignorant fools and the ideologist.
Even thought I do not agree in all areas with Aristotle, he was definitely one of the greatest metaphysical minds the world has seen.
"This is why we do not allow a man to rule, but rational principle, because a man behaves thus in his own interests and becomes a tyrant. The magistrate on the other hand is the guardian of justice, and, if of justice, then of equality also." -- Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics (more)
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http://etext.library.adelaide.edu.au/p/plato/p71r/
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http://www.age-of-the-sage.org/greek/philosopher/trial_death_socrates.html
Preview of the Natural Politic Order (Updated)
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http://metadave.wordpress.com/2008/02/14/socrates-on-what-prompts-the-change-from-champion-of-the-people-to-tyrant-video/
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http://metadave.wordpress.com/2007/12/06/socrates-on-perception-and-the-imprisonment-of-the-soul-video/
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