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nor more ignorantly than a great part of his Ethics."
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Think of that
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"nothing more repugnant to government than what Aristotle wrote in his Politics."
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Naturally, all thinkers, to some degree,
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have read Aristotle through their own lenses.
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Aquinas read Aristotle as a defender of monarchy.
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Dante, in his book, De Monarchia on monarchy, saw Aristotle as
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giving credence to the idea of a universal monarchy
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under the leadership of a Christian prince.
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But Hobbes saw Aristotle quite differently.
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For Hobbes, Aristotle taught
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the dangerous doctrine of republican government