Friday, February 10, 2017
Polybius and Animal Farm
The theory of Polybius, which say that descendants of the aristocrats had fallen into tomfoolery due to their greed of riches and power and was what degenerated the society into oligarchy, dual-lane some resemblance with the degeneracy and regress of Napoleons regime portrayed in brute leaven. The governments devolution in Animal give rise and the relationship among society and humans reflected in Polybius theory of political bike were similar. Polybius asserted that nobility sour into oligarchy when leadershiphip fall into decadency and greed. The pigs shown in Animal Farm were degenerated and governed for the reach of themselves rather than for the others. Therefore, depravity of the society was due to the corruption of the aristocrats. The pigs that came up as leaders in Animal Farm paralleled the corruption and degenerations of nobleness and oligarchy accounted by Polybius. \nPolybius saw the cause of degeneration of aristocracy and oligarchy was because rulers ceased their responsibilities to rule the confederation with logic and reason. Such degeneration led aristocracies to turn into oligarchies. This further happened when the rulers stopped ruling for the benefit of the society and indulged good-time excess, They defect their responsibilities some to greed of net profit and unscrupulous money making, others to insaneness in wine and the convivial excess which accompanies it (Polybius, Hist. 6.8). Polybius believed that when rulers became corrupted, they took the idea of material their own greed with entertainment, pleasure, and luxuries and gave up their responsibilities of ruling reasonably and logically. These types of rulers gained wealthiness immorally and lacked ethical reasoning, which Polybius express were signs of corruption and degeneration of an aristocracy into oligarchy. Polybius strongly stated that the aristocracy was degenerated and corrupted into oligarchy when the descendants of the leaders pu...
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