Analysis of Aristophanes The Knights and Contemporary Ethiopian Politics

Abstract

According to the Encyclopedia Britannica, democracy is both a way of life based on the fundamental premise that all people are equal and have an equal right to life, liberty (including the liberty of thought and expression), and the pursuit of happiness. Democracy is a form of government based on the self-rule of the people and in modern times upon freely elected representative institutions and an executive responsible to the people. Studying political philosophy between the years of 1200 and 1800 mostly relies on depictions of democracy found in Aristotle's Politics, Plato's Republic, and the work of Polybius. They discussed democracy generally in their work, although there are fewer references to Athenian democracy. Particularly in the fifth century, Athens served as a model for several democracies throughout Greece. The majority rule was the Athenian definition of democracy demos and demokratia. However, Democracy was viewed by Plato and Aristotle as the rule of the poor or the mob (demos in a social sense) (March et.al. 1992).