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Aristotle's Regime Forms, Right?
Aristotle says that tyrannical power is what power is, simple. And that's the only form of power there is. So if you were to impose a polity or an aristocracy or kingship on them, right, you might actually destroy that people. The best you can do may be to make them less tyrannical. That might be the best move because the matter or the people can only admit of so much form. In Plato's statesman, Socrates agrees with this statement and it is that we are as a tyrannical art, those who submit to force in political art. But then Aristotle will say, for King’s rule according to law, according to his care