Single Idea 22568

[catalogued under 25. Social Practice / B. Equalities / 2. Political equality]

Full Idea

Inferiors engage in faction in order to be equal, while equals do so in order to be superior.

Gist of Idea

Faction is for inferiors to be equal, and equals to become superior

Source

Aristotle (Politics [c.332 BCE], 1302a30)

Book Reference

Aristotle: 'Politics', ed/tr. Reeve,C.D.C. [Hackett 2017], p.113


A Reaction

In Britain that seems to trade unions in the first case, and the Conservative Party in the second case. Aristotle dislikes faction, but he's stuck with it because he insists on freedom.