Thursday, January 26, 2017
Polybius and Animal Farm
The theory of Polybius, which say that descendants of the aristocrats had fallen into intemperance due to their greed of riches and power and was what degenerated the society into oligarchy, shared out some resemblance with the degeneracy and decadence of Napoleons regime portrayed in wildcat kick upstairs. The governments degeneracy in Animal resurrect and the relationship surrounded by society and humans reflected in Polybius theory of political turn were similar. Polybius asserted that magnanimousness cancelled into oligarchy when leadinghip fall into putrefaction and greed. The pigs shown in Animal Farm were degenerated and governed for the hit of themselves rather than for the others. Therefore, retroversion of the society was due to the putrefaction of the aristocrats. The pigs that came up as leaders in Animal Farm paralleled the corruption and degenerations of magnanimousness and oligarchy accounted by Polybius. \nPolybius saw the cause of degeneration of aristocracy and oligarchy was because rulers ceased their responsibilities to rule the club with logic and reason. Such degeneration led aristocracies to turn into oligarchies. This altogether happened when the rulers stopped ruling for the benefit of the society and indulged sociable excess, They fling their responsibilities some to greed of cook and unscrupulous money making, others to foolery in wine and the convivial excess which accompanies it (Polybius, Hist. 6.8). Polybius believed that when rulers became corrupted, they took the idea of solid their own greed with entertainment, pleasure, and luxuries and gave up their responsibilities of ruling reasonably and logically. These types of rulers gained riches immorally and lacked ethical reasoning, which Polybius state were signs of corruption and degeneration of an aristocracy into oligarchy. Polybius strongly stated that the aristocracy was degenerated and corrupted into oligarchy when the descendants of the leaders p u...
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