Everywhere, inequality is a cause of revolution – Aristotle. Comment.
How the answer moves
The flow snapshot — the routes in, the body, the counter-view and the routes out.
Route 1 quote = heart of Aristotle’s revolution theory → revolution = any change in constitution/rulers, big or small → root cause = injustice bred by inequality
Route 2 revolution defined broadly → among many causes, inequality the deepest → because it breeds a sense of injustice
proportionate justice → injustice = equals treated unequally / unequals treated equally → felt mis-distribution of honour, office, wealth → discontent → rebellion → inequality real or imagined → relative deprivation → perceived injustice = most combustible material → Canevaro & Mantzouranis: clashing proportional-equality conceptions → roots of stasis / metabole → remedy: strong middle class + mixed polity → narrows gap, softens resentment
Aristotle narrow + status-quoist (revolution only political, seeks prevention) vs Marx → revolution as structural transformation, driving force of history
Route 1 claim powerful but limited → link between inequality and instability stays sharp
Route 2 perceived injustice, not poverty alone, is the real trigger → insight holds across regimes
Model answer
Handwritten, in the form it would be written in the examination hall.
Also asked on this head
Western Political Thought — 29 questions in the Vault.
- Mill’s work was crucial to the development of liberalism, because it straddled the divide between classical and modern theories. Analyze.
- “Fortune favours the brave.” In the light of this statement, discuss Machiavelli’s concepts of ‘virtue’ and ‘fortune’.
- Hannah Arendt analysed a few categories of vita activa. Explain.
How this is taught
The same flow snapshot, built for every head of the syllabus, with the answer written in class.
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