Introduction Politics plays a major role in our lives. This importance manifests itself through the Government of the day in each country. Politics in part has also been shaped by philosophy and great thinkers such as Aristotle, Aquinas, Galileo, Machiavelli and a host of other great thinkers. They have shaped politics to what it is today and this continues to be seen today. Aquinas greatly influenced medieval politics of Europe. At the time, politics in Europe was greatly influenced by the Christian faith (Machiavelli 108).At the time, Theologians were responsible with the political system. Aquinas, who is credited as being the greatest theologian in the Catholic Faith, wrote many works that touched on political philosophy (Aquinas 235). How Governments are run, up to how the citizenry make up has been shaped by these great thinkers. Contemporary philosophers who played a big part after the Second World War worked to distinguish between communism and capitalism. Politics was greatly divided along these two lines. Contemporary philosophers include Dr. Martin Luther King, Karl Marx, and Max Horkeheimer among others; have in their own way modernized the pattern of thinking from the subsequent schools of philosophy (Hampton 55). History of Political Thinking Political systems have been around and historians have attributed the rise of politics to the early days of the Greek society. At the time people living in Greece, were divided into three groups, the Pedinoi, whose source of living was shaped by land ownership, it was this group that later formed the Monarch system that was experienced in parts of the World. The second group was the Paralioi, whose source of lively hood was through trade of goods and service and through shipping. It was this group that first engaged in early Commerce. Among the Paralioi, there were people who belonged to another class, living on the basis of wealth. They were able to live in comfort as opposed to the third and last group. The last group was the Diakrioi were peasants and freeman. They were people who had long suffered forms of oppression of the time. These groups were created by a man known as Solon, who was later overthrown by Peisistratos. He knew how to move the masses. He ensured that the citizens at the time were always flattered by his promises of good living and comfort but in reality he was feeding his thirst for power by using the weakness of the citizens at the time (Burnet 29). Anthropologists have shown that he diverted the attention of the people by building Temples and other religious monuments to keep them busy. This led to the rise of the all powerful monarchy. It was after the end of dictatorship in 511, that two new groups emerged. They comprised of the Oligarchoi who were the owners of the land at the time and are attributed to the system of Oligarchy. The second group was the merchants of Greece who introduced the system of Democracy. The two groups were always in contention for power and were both ruled by old families that resided in Athens. This led Aristocracies as few elite families could rule the country of Greece (Burnett 103). Early Political Concepts Great thinkers and philosophers alike, were responsible in coming