... afraid that having such a clear-cut and universal conception of the good will inevitably lead to further ideological warfare. It is because the core assumptions of Hobbes' and Aristotle's thought are directly opposed to one another that Hobbes believes Aristotelian ideas sufficiently dangerous to merit such strong condemnation. Furthermore, it may be a surprise to the reader that Marx, the father of communism, might have any connections to the democratic Ancient Greeks. Then it may be even more surprising to learn that Marx's theories were at least partly based on and developed from Aristotle's works on moral economy. There are many similarities between the works of Marx and Aristotle which help explain how Marx used Aristotelian philosophies as one of many bases for the development of communism. Aristotle wrote much on politics and political theory. Different approaches, pessimistic and optimistic, can be taken in deciding whether humans are inherently evil ...

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