Does anyone know about the relation between
Aristotle's thinking, especially, I suppose, in 'Politics,'
and James Harrington and his 'Commwealth of
Oceana.'<br><br>As to an association between Aristotlean thought and
that of Rand, I am reminded of how Orwell seems to
have deliberately played of the name of Harrington's
commonwealth in naming the home totalitarian state (in part at
least originally Britain) of his protagionist in
'1984.' The similar name has a rather ironic effect,
pointing up the difference, rather than the similarity,
between the two visions.