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It is when political functions become concentrated into
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the hands of, again, the too few hands that we risk
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arbitrary government and the endangerment to the liberty
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of the individual.
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But for Aristotle, it is not the liberty of the
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individual so much as the functioning or functional well-being
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of the city that is the highest priority.
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Individual freedom may be, at best, a desirable byproduct of
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the Aristotelian mixed regime, but individual freedom is not its
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defining or principle goal.
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For anyone interested in this difference, I suggest you contrast
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or compare Aristotle's account of mixed government to Book XI of