Politics by aristotle5/26/2023 No mere intellectual exercise, Aristotle's theory of a city-state is one that he explicitly draws from the people and societies around him. In place of a thought experiment, which Socrates proposes as a means to discover the nature of justice, Aristotle's city-state is something rather more "real world." He underscores that several families – each family itself embodying the natural unit of human social organization – come together to form a small village, and such small villages in turn combine in order to form a city-state. Readers of Plato's Republic will find this concern with politics familiar, but over the course of eight books, Aristotle provides the blueprint for something quite different from Plato's kallipolis. Pivoting from the last chapter of the Nicomachean Ethics, where Aristotle explicitly links individual and civic ethical concerns by tasking the city-state with cultivating virtuous citizens, the Politics details the hierarchies and methods by which a state might achieve these goals.
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