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a king who rules without law and rules for the good of all,
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simply on the basis of his own superiority.
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Aristotle coins a term for this kind of king overall,
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he calls it the pambasileia,
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baseleia being the Greek world for king,
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like the name Basil, it's the Greek word for king
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and pan meaning universal,
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the universal king, the king of all.
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Aristotle does not rule out the possibility of such a person
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emerging, a person of, what he calls excessive virtue,
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almost hyperbolic excellence, he says, who stands so far above
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the rest as to deserve to be the natural ruler overall.