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the relation between the best regime or the good regime,
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and what we could say are actually existing regimes,
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regimes that we are all familiar with.
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What function does the best regime play in political science?
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How does it guide our actions here and now?
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This issue received a kind of classic formulation
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in Aristotle's distinction of what he called
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the good human being and the good citizen.
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For the good citizen-- we'll read this chapter later on in
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the Politics-- for the good citizen you could say
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patriotism is enough, to uphold and defend the laws of
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your own country simply because they are your own