Apply: Classical and Enlightenment Thinkers

"The original causes which dispose men to [revolution] are . . . seven in number . . . : . . . profit and honour sharpen men against each other . . . . The other causes are haughtiness, fear, eminence, contempt, disproportionate increase in some part of the state. There are also other things which in a different manner will occasion revolutions in governments; as election intrigues, neglect, want of numbers, a too great dissimilarity of circumstances."

Aristotle, The Politics—Book Five