히포다모스의 폴리테이아 (Hippodamus of Miletus and the Best Form of Constitution)

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The ideal city that Hippodamus planned to construct is founded on three different classes that are artisans, farmers, and soldiers. Unlike Phaleas who tried to exclude artisans from the status of a citizen, Hippodamus claimed that artisans occupied their places as the first class in his advocacy of the ideal city. He argued, however, that all three classes, that is, all the citizens may enjoy their political authorities. He repudiated the method of lot as a bad arrangement of social choice. He contended instead that the magistrate were all to be elected by the people. Election as a sort of social arrangement in his claims was the first revolutionary idea, introduced to Greek political thought. It would be compared to Phaleas’ radical proposal, which defended for the political reform to regulate the size of property and the equalization of property from theoretical point of view. Hippodamus of Miletus was searching for the best form of constitution as the unitary principle of social organization, dividing all the citizens into three classes. It is, nevertheless, extremely difficult to determine whether Hippodamus’ proposal was aristocratic-oligarchical or democratic-egalitarian-revolutionary.
It is not to be overlooked that his political reform emphasized the importance of rational knowledge and the consciousness of capability(= Könnens- und Könnerbewußtsein) that had been a Zeitgeist since then.
It would be fair to say that Hippodamus’ plan for constitutional arrangement was a utopian effort for the transformation of society, which provided a clue to interpret his defense for the mixed government between aristocracy and democracy. It is fair to conclude, therefore, that Hippodamus’ proposal to deal with the problem of equality in community concentrated on the formal condition of constitution as well as the material conditions of flourishing society.

영어초록

The ideal city that Hippodamus planned to construct is founded on three different classes that are artisans, farmers, and soldiers. Unlike Phaleas who tried to exclude artisans from the status of a citizen, Hippodamus claimed that artisans occupied their places as the first class in his advocacy of the ideal city. He argued, however, that all three classes, that is, all the citizens may enjoy their political authorities. He repudiated the method of lot as a bad arrangement of social choice. He contended instead that the magistrate were all to be elected by the people. Election as a sort of social arrangement in his claims was the first revolutionary idea, introduced to Greek political thought. It would be compared to Phaleas’ radical proposal, which defended for the political reform to regulate the size of property and the equalization of property from theoretical point of view. Hippodamus of Miletus was searching for the best form of constitution as the unitary principle of social organization, dividing all the citizens into three classes. It is, nevertheless, extremely difficult to determine whether Hippodamus’ proposal was aristocratic-oligarchical or democratic-egalitarian-revolutionary.
It is not to be overlooked that his political reform emphasized the importance of rational knowledge and the consciousness of capability(= Könnens- und Könnerbewußtsein) that had been a Zeitgeist since then.
It would be fair to say that Hippodamus’ plan for constitutional arrangement was a utopian effort for the transformation of society, which provided a clue to interpret his defense for the mixed government between aristocracy and democracy. It is fair to conclude, therefore, that Hippodamus’ proposal to deal with the problem of equality in community concentrated on the formal condition of constitution as well as the material conditions of flourishing society.

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