Tyrannical governance is unjust, since it
is ordered to the private good of the ruler, not to the common good, as
the Philosopher makes clear in the Politics and the Ethics.
And so disturbances of such governance does not have the character or
rebellion, except, perhaps, in cases where the tyrant’s governance is so
inordinately disturbed that the subject people suffer greater harm from
the resulting disturbance than from the tyrant’s governance. Rather,
tyrants, who by seeking greater domination incite discontent and
rebellion in the people subject to them, are the rebels. For governance
is tyrannical when ordered to the ruler’s own good to the detriment of
the people.
HT to Joel Martin over at Living Word.
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