Samsara, Anacyclosis, Moksha

A Review of Stephen RL Clark’s Cities and Thrones and Powers

The Greek historian of the Roman Empire, Polybius (ca. 200-118 BCE), identified six possible types of constitution, three of which he takes to be positive bases for a political state and three their mirrored, corrupted versions. Those are, in order, kingship, aristocracy, and democracy, on the one hand, and tyranny, oligarchy, and mob-rule, on the other…