Aristotle on Law and justice:

1. Law is not conventional but natural because it is moral and therefore universal.
2. Natural Law is general principle of conduct which is ascertained by reason.
3. Natural laws were to be implemented only by the legislator.
4. He believed in natural law but not in natural rights.
5. He said a bad constitution means bad laws and rule by law was better than personal rule because law had an impersonal quality which the ruler lacks.

Justice:

Like Plato virtue in action and complete justice is the whole of moral virtue in social relationship.
Distributive justice & Corrective justice:
1. The latter is concerned mainly with voluntary transactions while the former consists in proper allocation to each person according to his worth so; each type of political organization has its own standard of worth and therefore distributive justice.
2. Man’s rights and awards must correspond to his social performance and contributions.
3. Many, collectively, make an important contribution to the state and must be proportionally rewarded but this concept can not be applied to big nation states today.

Aristotle on Education:

1. The end of the state is good life of the individual for which education is the best instrument which has both political and intellectual aim.
2. Education must be adopted to the constitution of the state and calculated to train man in certain type of character suitable to the state.
3. Building of particular type of character is more important than imparting knowledge and therefore, it should be state regulated.

Aristotle’s distinction between State and Governments

Government tangible, changeable, while the state is intangible idea and permanent but he did not believe in the sovereignty of the state, it belonged to the de-facto government.

Aristotle on Government:

1. ON the basis of Birth (Monarchy degenerated into Tyranny) Wealth (Aristocracy degenerated into Oligarchy) and number (Polity degenerated into Democracy)
2. He was in favor of a vague sort of democracy.

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