Jose Rizal

Pangasinan State University
Bayambang Campus
Bayambang, Pangasinan

A MONARCHY
(ARISTOTLE’S POLITICS)

Prepared by:
Group II
Members:
Anasco, Joshua C.
Bactad, Evelyn V.
Mejia, Meijoe ann
Aquino, Rosie R.
Dela Cruz, Sarah Jean

Thru:
Dr. Annie C. Manalang

March 13, 2013

I. INTRODUCTION
The Monarchy in general it is a government having a hereditary chief of state with life tenure and powers varying from nominal to absolute. Hence, According to Aristotle, monarchy is exercised over voluntary subjects, but limited to certain functions, the king was a general and a judge, and had control of religion. In other country, they have a monarchial system, a king is the most powerful, and in the Philippines today we have a democratic kind of government system which headed by President and other government officials.
II. BODY Aristotle sets out the six kinds of regimes which is the correct regimes and the flawed or deviant regimes. He also distinguished this six kinds of social structure in three pairs depending upon the number of people involved in governing and the focus of their interests. THE CORRECT REGIMES | THE FLAWEDORDEVIANT REGIMES | MONARCHY ( rule by one man for the common good) | TYRANNY ( rule by one man in his own interest) | ARISTOCRACY ( rule by a few for the common good) | OLIGARCHY ( rule by the few in their own interest) | POLITY/DEMOCRACY ( rule by the many for the common good) | MOBOCRACY ( rule by the many in their own interest) |
Aristotle later ranks them in order of goodness, with monarchy the best, aristocracy the next best, then polity/democracy, mobocracy, oligarchy, and the tyranny. People in Western societies are used to thinking of mobocracy as a good form of government – maybe the only good form of government – but Aristotle considers it one of the flawed regimes (although it is the least bad of the three) and you should keep that in mind in his discussion of it. You should also keep in mind that by the “common good” Aristotle means the common good of the citizens, and not necessarily all the residents of the city.
Aristotle also drew a sharper distinction between morality and politics than Plato had done. Although a good citizen is a good person, on Aristotle’s view, the good person can be good even independently of the society. A good citizen, however, can exist only as a part of the social structure itself, so the state is in some sense prior to the citizen.
Although he believed monarchy to be the best possible state in principle, Aristotle recognized that in practice it is liable to degenerate into the worst possible state, a tyranny. He therefore recommended the formation of polity, or constitutional government, since its degenerate form in the least harmful of the bad kinds of government. As always, Aristotle defended the mean rather than run the risk of either extreme.
III. REACTION/CONCLUSION
After the further elaboration of Ma’am Annie Manalang, I was enlightened in a sense that the monarchy is headed by a king where has a common good in society. Because, before, I thought whatever the king policy has, even democratic or dictatorial it called monarchy, but I was wrong if the king has a bad policy or using his power for his own interest it should be called tyranny.

IV. RECOMMENDATION I recommended to all individuals that who could read this written report that I have given all my deep dedication and full effort in order to finish this that if you will be a leader in your country you should choose or implement a monarchial type system of government because this type of government only your family could handle the governance of your country. And if you will not be a leader, you will just be a normal citizens choose to reside in a democratic country because it is the government of the people, by the people and for the people.