THE POLITICS OF EXCELLENCE: AN INVESTIGATION OF THE MORAL GROUND OF POLITICS IN ARISTOTLE.

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dc.contributor.authorTHEOPHILUS CHANDO
dc.date.accessioned2024-05-06T15:48:24Z
dc.date.available2024-05-06T15:48:24Z
dc.date.issued2024-05-06
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dc.description.abstractThis thesis analyses Aristotle’s Political Theory. According to Aristotle, political leadership must be based on a strong moral foundation. A political leader’s role is to dispense justice in all its aspects, and this includes distributive, commutative, and restorative justice. A political leader without a good moral character is a bad leader. The State, is primarily a moral institution, whose main role is to train citizens in moral virtue, and to ensure that each person’s character accords with the demands of virtue. For this reason, leaders must educate citizens to desist from pursuing the base pleasures, and should themselves lead by example. State power is for the service to all citizens, and only a person of virtue has the disposition to make this happen, as well as to ensure that wealth is used for what it is really meant for, that is for the physical wellbeing of citizens, and to dispose them for virtuous life. A person who is not trained in virtue cannot, therefore, be a good political leader. For Aristotle, therefore, politics is not for people with questionable moral character, but is for those whose moral aptitude has been tested and proven. Without this, any leader is bound to destroy the state he is supposed to protect and nurture.
dc.identifier.urihttps://repository.cuea.edu/handle/123456789/310
dc.language.isoen_US
dc.publisherThe Catholic University of Eastern Africa.
dc.subjectmoral virtue
dc.subjectthe state and the individual
dc.subjecteducation
dc.titleTHE POLITICS OF EXCELLENCE: AN INVESTIGATION OF THE MORAL GROUND OF POLITICS IN ARISTOTLE.
dc.typeThesis

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