Moral Sciences Club

Aristotle on Being Ruled Well


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In Politics 3.4 Aristotle distinguishes the virtue of the good citizen from the virtue of the good person by noting that the good citizen should both rule well and be ruled well. I show that ‘being ruled well’ here is best understood in terms of ‘being good at being ruled’ and find evidence elsewhere for what Aristotle thinks it is to be good at being ruled, how this differs from and is related to what it is to be good at ruling, and why Aristotle thinks that it is appropriate for a citizen in a political community to be good at being ruled.

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Moral Sciences ClubBy University of Cambridge, Faculty of Philosophy

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