Atimocracy, in choosing its leaders, is inclining rather to the more high-spirited and simple-minded type, who are better suited for war.
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That is how atimocracybecomes an oligarchy.
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They are aristocracy,timocracy, oligarchy, democracy and tyranny.
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An oligarchy is originated by extending tendencies already evident in atimocracy.
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Thetimocracyvalues war insofar as it satisfies a love of victory and honor.
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Those governments aretimocracy, oligarchy, democracy, and tyranny.
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Thetimocracyinvolves a lot of compromise, between wealth and virtue.
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It begins with the dismissal oftimocracy, a sort of authoritarian regime, not unlike a military dictatorship.
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Socrates points out the human tendency to be corrupted by power leads down the road totimocracy, oligarchy, democracy and tyranny.
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His was the first known deliberately implemented form oftimocracy, allocating political rights and economic responsibility depending on membership of one of four tiers of the population.
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The governants oftimocracyvalue power, but they seek to attain it primarily by means of military conquest and the acquisition of honors, instead of intellectual means.
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Socrates argues that thetimocracyemerges from aristocracy due to a civil war breaking out among the ruling class and the majority.
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Aristotle describestimocracyin the sense of rule by property-owners: it comprised one of his true political forms.
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Plato gives a detailed account of the problems usually faced by the oligarchies of his days, which he considered as significantly more troubled than the former system, that oftimocracy.
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