Beliefs of Various Philosophers

Aristotle considers the question of time. Time in his view cannot be identified with movement or change because movements are multiple, but time is still connected to movement and change. Our awareness of time and our awareness of change are the same, and change takes place through time and demonstrates the passage of time. Time is conceived as a continuum on which change takes place. The alteration that does take place may be fast or slow, and that which is fast or slow is defined by time. What changes in a short time is fast, and what changes in a long time is slow.

Movement is necessary for a thing to be in time, with movement conceived in the broadest sense. If something is not in movement, it is eternal and will never end, and so is outside of time.

Epicurus sees life as sensation, and this is an unchanging fact in a changing world. Life i

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time, while Aristotle's was in the process of becoming, improving, and changing. At its center, Aristotle's ideal state, whatever its specific form of government, maintains its legitimacy by serving the good life for the people as a whole. Aristotle's description of the state as an association of free men aligns him with democratic theory, though he expresses a distaste for democracy at a certain level and finds that there are certain classes in society that should not be given the right to participate because they are not worthy. Aristotle calls his version of democracy by the name "polity" and describes its constitution as assuring political control to be exercised by the mass of the populace in the common interest (Ebenstein and Ebenstein 81-85). The Roman theorists wrote at a time of expanding power, and the prevailing form of government as quite different from that in Greece because of the sheer size of the Empire. Greek political thought was influential in Rome, of course, given that the Romans adopted much of Greek thought to their own point of view. Rome, however, was not structured around the city state but around much larger and more power-oriented political entities and structures. Greek political philosophy w
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