Salient features of greek political through in few sentences
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Explanation:
The ancient Greek Political Thought varies from the Political Thought of other ancient countries like Egypt, Bobylonia, Syria, Persia, India, China etc., formed treatise of purely political nature. On the other hand ancient civilizations the political ideas were inter-mixed with mythology and religious literature. For example in India the Ramayana, Mahabharata, Manu Smriti, deal with political problems which are not totally political treatises. They were mainly religious works in which political ideas were inter- mixed with religion and mythology and has to make special efforts to distinguish the politics form religion. In the case of Greek Political Thought the existence of number of independent treatises which are meant to study the political problems.
Main Concentration on Nature of State:
‘One of the important feature of the ancient Greek Political Thought was that it related itself mainly with the nature of the state and the concept that man is a political animal. The Greek writers did not reflect themselves with the problems relating to the relations between the State and Church, or State and Industry which was the part of political thought of later thinkers.’ When they consider man as a social animal they did not consider him as an isolated and independent individual and tried to understand him in relation to the social whole viz., the state. And the state become the centre of Greek political thinkers. They discussed the origin and end of the state and distinguished between various forms of states like Monarchy. Aristocracy, Oligarchy, Democracy, Tyranny etc. they also highlighted the points that forms of government, determine the order in which the changes take place in governments and the laws governing them.