POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY: A CASE STUDY ARISTOTLE'S IDEAS

Abstract

Article titled Political Philosophy: A Case Study of Aristotle's Ideas The results of the study found that Aristotle, a Greek philosopher made contributions to political thought from the past to the present. He presented political principles, namely: 1. Man is a political animal and a social animal, meaning that man cannot survive alone like other animals but can survive fully within the boundaries of a city-state, 2. The formation of a state begins with an individual and expands to a family, village, and community, and finally, a city-state by the city-state serves to ensure stability and develop civilization for humans, 3. Aristotle supports the principle of government by law because good governance must be lawful government and law will be a tool for regulating, overseeing, and maintaining justice within society, by relying on laws from natural law and law established by humans, 4. Supporting the ownership of private property, rejecting the concept of public ownership, 5. State government includes monarchy, aristocracy, polity, tyranny, oligarchy, and democracy and 6. Support constitutional government, the best form of government according to Aristotle is constitutional government, which is a state ruled by the people who are chosen to run the country.