Political Science · Western Political Thought
Which modern political philosopher gives a theory of state very similar to that given by Aristotle?
AHobbes
BLocke
CHegel ✓ Correct
DRousseau
Correct answer: (C) Hegel — Hegel gives a theory of the state closest to Aristotle's.
Explanation
★Hegel gives a theory of the state closest to Aristotle's.
★Both Aristotle and Hegel offer an organic, ethical and integrative view of the state.
★For both, the state is a natural moral community in which the individual finds fulfilment.
★Aristotle said man is by nature a political animal who completes himself in the polis.
★Hegel saw the state as the march of reason and the highest ethical life, or Sittlichkeit.
★Hobbes and Locke instead build the state from a contract among separate individuals.
★So the organic tradition links Aristotle and Hegel against the contractual liberals.
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