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Later, Dante, borrowing heavily (though only implicitly) from Plotinus in his 1321 essay *De Monarchia*, makes a much more vigorous attempt to reframe Aristotle's Politics into a doctrine of right order, according to the principle of unity understood as God himself.
> *"[Aristotle] asserts that when several things are ordained for one end, one of them must regulate or rule, and the others must submit to regulation or rule... If we consider the individual man, we shall see that this applies to him, for, when all his faculties are ordered for his happiness, the intellectual faculty itself is regulator and ruler of all others; in no way else can man attain to happiness.... We are now agreed that the whole human race is ordered for one end... it is meet, therefore, that the leader and lord be one... [and] for the well being of the world there is needed a Monarchy..."* De Regno, 1267
> *"[Aristotle] asserts that when several things are ordained for one end, one of them must regulate or rule, and the others must submit to regulation or rule... If we consider the individual man, we shall see that this applies to him, for, when all his faculties are ordered for his happiness, the intellectual faculty itself is regulator and ruler of all others; in no way else can man attain to happiness.... We are now agreed that the whole human race is ordered for one end... it is meet, therefore, that the leader and lord be one... [and] for the well being of the world there is needed a Monarchy..."* Dante, De Monarchia, 1321
And the chief monarch, of course, is God: