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 While reading Vico's New Science, it is pretty clear that the problem of how to run a society has been with us a long time. We may think we are more sophisticated than past generations, but we just have fancy gadgets and many more atheists. Vico analyzed the ancients and discussed monarchy, democracy, aristocracy and how these forms can come about, thrive and fail. A particular type of commonwealth he cites is the Herculean commonwealth that was aristocratic, but an aristocratic democratic civil government in that it was a group of armed men who had fought for their area. An assembly of armed men that had restored or created order who would set the laws for society to function. The armed men have a say in the way society is run. Looking at US history, this applies to America as well if we consider the generational theory of crisis and cycles. While reading Vico's New Science, it is pretty clear that the problem of how to run a society has been with us a long time. We may think we are more sophisticated than past generations, but we just have fancy gadgets and many more atheists. Vico analyzed the ancients and discussed monarchy, democracy, aristocracy and how these forms can come about, thrive and fail. A particular type of commonwealth he cites is the Herculean commonwealth that was aristocratic, but an aristocratic democratic civil government in that it was a group of armed men who had fought for their area. An assembly of armed men that had restored or created order who would set the laws for society to function. The armed men have a say in the way society is run. Looking at US history, this applies to America as well if we consider the generational theory of crisis and cycles.
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