An oligarchy is originated by extending tendencies already evident in a timocracy.
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Socrates defines a timocracy as a government of people who love rule and honor.
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The timocracy values war insofar as it satisfies a love of victory and honor.
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That is how a timocracy becomes an oligarchy.
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When its social structure breaks down and enters civil war, it is replaced by Timocracy.
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Plato characterizes timocracy as a mixture of the elements of two different regime types aristocracy and oligarchy.
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The character of the society described there is eminently conservative, a corrected or liberalized timocracy on the Athens.
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It begins with the dismissal of timocracy, a sort of authoritarian regime, not unlike a military dictatorship.
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Aristotle describes timocracy in the sense of rule by property-owners : it comprised one of his true political forms.
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Aristotelian timocracy approximated to the constitution of Athens, although Athens exemplified the corrupted version of this form, described as democracy.