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	Political Philosophy: Lecture Notes: State University of West Georgia - Robert Lane, Ph.D.
		timocracy or timarchy -- ruled by the aggressive / spirited class [Gk.
		The point of examining these various forms of government is to discover who is happier / better off, the just man or the unjust man. Plato is still assuming that the polis is "man writ large" and that we can learn something about individuals by examining the structure of a polis.
		"Timocracy" has another meaning: a form of government in which property-ownership is a necessary condition for participation in government.
	www.westga.edu /~rlane/political/lecture_Plato8.html (1679 words)

	Timocracy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		His, the first known deliberately-implemented form of timocracy, allotted political rights and economic responsibilties depending on membership of one of four tiers of the population.
		Aristotle describes timocracy in the sense of rule by property-owners: it comprised one of his true political forms.
		Aristotelian timocracy approximated to the constitution of Athens, although Athens exemplified the corrupted version of this form, described as democracy.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Timocracy (396 words)

	Mixed government - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		timocracy - government by socio-military complexes (i.e., the form of government used in Sparta)
		Aristotle largely embraced Plato's ideas and in his Politics three types (sans Timocracy) are discussed in detail.
		Aristotle views aristocracy to be the ideal form of government but he observes that none of the three are stable and that states will cycle between the three forms in a violent and chaotic process known as the kyklos.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Mixed_government (549 words)

	DOES ARISTOTLE UNDERRATE DEMOCRACY?
		But this does not help those who wish to read this whole passage as a discussion of regimes and their perversions, because the passage suggests that the badness of the rulers is the cause of a change from a particular regime type--aristocracy--to another regime--oligarchy.
		Since no reason is clearly stated for the change from timocracy to democracy, we can hardly assume the change occurs because of the badness of the rulers, although this is the usual reading of the passage.
		Timocracy in Plato is the regime of lovers of honor and thus is dominated by warriors.
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	DOES ARISTOTLE UNDERRATE DEMOCRACY?
		Also, timocracy is not a regime discussed in the Politics, for what is described as "polity," or the "regime called regime," hardly resembles timocracy, as commonly understood from Plato's Republic.
		Timocracy as described in Nicomachean Ethics 8.10.1260a34-35 deals not with the regime dominated by the concern for honor but for a limited property qualification.
		Surely, timocracy's position as both a regime and its choiceworthiness as a regime-type is put into question.
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	ARISTOTLE'S NICOMACHEAN ETHICS: Book #8
		Timocracy passes over into democracy; for these are co-terminous, since it is the ideal even of timocracy to be the rule of the majority, and all who have the property qualifications count as equal.
		This is the kind of friendship that obtains between the members of a timocracy, because ideally the citizens are equal and good; so they hold office in turn, and on a basis of equality; and consequently their friendship has this basis too.
		Citizens in a timocracy share the same virtues and equality; their friendships are brotherly.
	www.interlog.com /~girbe/ethics8.html (1274 words)

	Civilization Fanatics' Forums - Odd New Gov- Timocracy
		Well, Timocracy is a government that was used mainly at feudal nations.
		Timocracy, is a form of government originating from Feudal nations.
		Jan 07, 2002 05:10 PM Actually timocracy is a lot older than that, as Plato talks about it in "The Republic".
	forums.civfanatics.com /printthread.php?t=13704 (425 words)

	SparkNotes: The Republic: Book VIII
		These people will want to change things so that rulers can have private property and focus on wealth, while the good among the rulers will want to preserve the old order and focus on virtue.
		After some battling between these factions, the resulting constitution will be a compromise: a timocracy.
		To satisfy the bad faction, the rulers will distribute all the land and houses in the city as private property among themselves, and enslave the producers as serfs.
	www.sparknotes.com /philosophy/republic/section8.rhtml (1679 words)

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		The rich become the rulers and the poor are stripped of participation in political activities.
		Timocracy is the form of government admired most after aristocracy.
		Timocracy imitates aristocracy by honoring its ruler, providing common meals, and continueing to keep training for war in the foreground of the peoples' mind.
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	timocracy speech (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Plato and Aristotle used the term "timocracy" to define a government in which the honorable rule, or in which those with the most property rule.
		In Plato's Republic, Socrates says that a timocracy is the next closest form of government to the ideal government which is an aristocracy.
		An aristocracy is ruled by the philosopher-kings, while the timocracy is ruled by the honorable.
	home.earthlink.net /~timdwyer/timocracyspeech.html (525 words)

	Notes 8: Morality and happiness
		As a personality type, the aristocratic individual is the person with psychic harmony, in which reason rules and the desirous and passionate parts of the mind perform their proper functions, which means under the guidance and control of reason.
		Timocracy is rule by passionate types; the society is militaristic and imperialistic, and aims at accumulating wealth through conquest.
		Suppose that as things develop, some people fail to achieve status they think they deserve; this might lead them to refocus on monetary gain, and the society could turn into an oligarchy.
	www.uwm.edu /People/sensat/courses/241/notes08.html (1342 words)

	CliffsNotes::Republic:Book Summary and Study Guide
		Socrates argues that there are four main types of unjust states: timocracy, oligarchy (plutocracy), democracy, and tyranny (despotism).
		Socrates says that timocracy is the closest to the Ideal State that we have thus far experienced; the others descend in value as they are listed.
		Socrates descries government by timocracy (from timé, honor) in Sparta and in Crete, where the military was in power (kratos) and honor and ambition were highly valued.
	www.cliffsnotes.com /WileyCDA/LitNote/id-154,pageNum-70.html (1254 words)

	Philosophical Quotations: Aristotle on Government
		The constitutions are Kingship, Aristocracy, and thirdly, a constitution based on a property classification, which it seems appropriate to describe as timocratic, although most people are accustomed to speak of it merely as a constitutional government or Republic.
		The inferiority of Tyranny among the perversions is more evident than that of Timocracy among the constitutions, for the opposite of the best must be the worst.
		Timocracy passes into Democracy, there being an affinity between them, inasmuch as the ideal of Timocracy also is government by the mass of the citizens, and within the property qualifications all are equal.
	radicalacademy.com /philosophicalquotations35.htm (5677 words)

	Greece to Us: Political Origins - Encyclopedia FunTrivia
		In fact, Plato's use of the word "timocracy" is the earliest found in ancient manuscripts.
		Aristotle believed timocracy to be the best form of government.
		He described timocracy as a state in which all that own a minimally qualifying amount of property participate equally in the political process.
	www.funtrivia.com /en/subtopics/Greece-to-Us-Political-Origins-221961.html (1462 words)

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		As a notable prerequisite to the discussion is a five-stage cyclical classification of societal leadership: aristocracy, timocracy, oligarchy, democracy and tyranny.
		Socrates was asked to explain moving away from aristocratic control, a condition of reasoned excellence, into timocracy, an honorable and glory-ridden form of political leadership.
		The challenge he faced: if a leader were truly excellent, he would undoubtedly maintain his stature at the political and social pinnacle; in other words, preservation is a condition of excellence.
	www.youthurban.com /archives/001087.html (3988 words)

	Aristotle - The Different Kinds of Institution (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The constitutions are monarchy, aristocracy, and thirdly the kind that is based on a property qualification (timema), which it seems natural to call a timocracy, although most people usually call it a polity.
		From aristocracy the change is into timocracy, and it is due to the corruptness of ministers, who distribute the resources of the state without regard to merit, and keep all or most of the benefits for themselves, and confine public appointments to the same persons, because they pay most regard to wealth.
		From timocracy the change is into democracy, since they are next-door neighbours; because timocracy too has as its object rule by the people, all who satisfy the property qualification being equal.
	www.generation-online.org /p/fparistotle.htm (292 words)

	timocracy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		I believe in the redefinition of a timocracy.
		Thus as a ruler in a timocracy, I order everyone to subject to me and all other Tims.
		On the Trinity and the Hierarchy of the Timocracy
	home.earthlink.net /~timdwyer/timocracy.html (108 words)

	Greece to Us: Political Origins - Encyclopedia FunTrivia
		The Greek root for timocracy, "timee", is an ancient Greek word that denoted honor when applied to people but denoted worth when applied to things.
		Solon tied civic honor to grain production, thus timocracy can be appropriately applied to the government deriving from this conjunction.
		But just as kingship can become tyranny and aristocracy can devolve to oligarchy, so even the best form of government, timocracy, may be subverted.
	funtrivia.com /en/subtopics/Greece-to-Us-Political-Origins-221961.html (1462 words)

	Timocracy - Encyclopedia
		That is what Timocracy is all about, communication.
		This encyclopedia is a terse (see: brief) compilation of human behavior, body language and what it all means from simply gestures hereto ignored like the "head nod" to more complex non-verbal communication like the "hand behind the head".
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	www.timocracyonline.com /modules.php?name=Encyclopedia (171 words)

	sciforums.com - Timocracy
		Living today with the lobbying powers of certain groups, the apathy and ignorance of entire populations and the non-participation of a large percentage of the citizenry we can see the benefits of Timocracy here.
		It is necessary to mention that Timocracy was related to Democracy but had elitist leanings which made it a cross between a Democratic and Oligarchic system and was, for this reason, a precursor for the later development of Democracy in ancient Athens.
		Also the limitation of land ownership ensured that each citizen, whether wealthy or middle-class, had to work the land, earn his living by toiling and minimized the amount of civil servants and other supporting classes, such as artists, teachers, governmental officials, bureaucrats of all kinds, merchants and yes even philosophers etc.
	www.sciforums.com /printthread.php?t=34815 (2764 words)

	Free Barron's BookNotes for Barron's Booknotes - The Republic by Plato-Free Literature Summaries/Booknotes from ...
		He began with the perfect state, aristocracy, and now he proceeds to trace its decline from timocracy, to oligarchy, to democracy, and, finally, to the most wretched constitution, tyranny.
		A timocracy is the rule of people who love honor (time is Greek for "honor").
		Sparta had a form of government that Plato admired and it is his model for timocracy.
	www.pinkmonkey.com /booknotes/barrons/republc46.asp (563 words)

	Moopuna: Term Papers on Plato
		Timocracy, etc. We can compare our government of liberty by and for the people, Democracy, to Plato's model of the five stages of government.
		This corruption resulted in the demise of that form of government and out of its ashes arose the next form of government in the cycle.
		Since a Timocracy is a government of honor, one would think that there would not be any corruption.
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		So too for Aristotle in the third category democracy was taken for the bad sort and timocracy, which means something like the rule of the worthy, was used to signify a rule of the many for the common good.
		Now, Aristotle, a shrewd observer of human nature, noted that when rulers used their power not for the good of the community, or the common good, but to further their own interests, certain things particularly attracted them according to the different kinds of rule they exercised.
		However, taking into account the condition of human nature where, as Lord Acton says, power corrupts and absolute power tends to corrupt absolutely, the best kind in the concrete would seem to be a mixture of the three good kinds, so that the tendency for one person or a few to dominate others is checked.
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	Plato's Ideal Constitution (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		There are four principle defective forms: timocracy, oligarchy, democracy, and tyranny.
		Aristocracy's (the republic) degeneration into timocracy occurs as a kind of hypothetical fluke, an error in population control.
		The timocracy is a government based primarily on honor not justice, and the timocratic man is torn between his philosophical ancestors and new, ingratiating contemporaries who flatter his vanity.
	www.radessays.com /viewpaper/14192/Plato's_Ideal_Constitution.html (230 words)

	Polis (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The Greeks living in those city-states, however, soon tired of the kings, many of which were overthrown in the eighth century BC.
		A variety of political alternatives were experimented with in place of the basileus : these included oligarchy, timocracy, tyranny, and democracy.
		The most common form of government in the Greek city-states was oligarchy, or "rule by a few." The oligarchs were almost always drawn from the noble classes or from the wealthiest citizens of the state ("rule by the wealthy" is called a timocracy), but a variety of oligarchic forms were invented in the eighth century.
	www.wsu.edu:8080 /~dee/GLOSSARY/POLIS.HTM (1092 words)

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