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We can begin to see it is clear how Aristotle's best regime differs from
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Plato's intransigent demand for the rule of philosopher-kings.
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is not a philosopher in the strict sense.
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Sociologically, Aristotle makes clear that the
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megalopsychos, unlike the philosopher,
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is a person of some inherited wealth, chiefly landed property,
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but whose way of life will be urban.
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He will be a member of what we might call the urban patriciate.
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In the , Aristotle provides us with a vivid
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list of the psychological and even physical characteristics that such a
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person must possess, this "megalopsychos".
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Such a person, he says, exhibits a sort of lofty