These entities are the formal cause of the polis, according to Aristotle.
Warning: specific term required.A description of one of these entities is the only Aristotelian text to have been recovered since the Renaissance. In another treatise, Aristotle noted that, since most places do not have the resources to make every person happy, one must theorize about the non-ideal kinds of these entities, since they are the only ones that will be actually used. Book Six of Polybius's Histories classified a Roman entity of this kind as (*) "mixed," which leads Scipio to call it the best one in a later dialogue. A six-part classification of these entities is based on the distinction between "proper" and "perverted" senses of justice. A revised one of these entities is proposed in Book Three of Cicero's De Legibus. These entities are the formal cause of the polis, according to Aristotle. For 10 points, Aristotle's Politics classifies tyrannies, oligarchies, and democracies as what kind of entity, examples of which were written by Lycurgus and Solon?
Warning: specific term required.A description of one of these entities is the only Aristotelian text to have been recovered since the Renaissance.
constitutions [prompt on answers like "laws" or "law codes"; prompt on "government" or similar; or politeia; or status civitatis; or reipublicae status; accept any more specific constitutions, like Constitution of Athens]