POLSCI 2O06 Final: 2. Aristotle – The Politics

• School: McMaster University
• Department: Political Science
• Course: POLSCI 2O06
• Professor: Inder Marwah

Document Summary

The polis is the most sovereign of all associations. Husband and wife, master and slave one more (look up) Then the village, the community, sovereign above all is the polis, the state. There"s good parts of states or types and bad ones. We enter into political association because we are not self-sufficient. We need it because of our nature and the kinds of beings we actually are. We can"t do the things that make us human beings. There is not one right society he will argue that different societies have to pursue different ends. Still thinks that political life and association has one end. We enter in politics to live well not just to survive. Best life that your particular society is able to live what all forms of political association has the same. We cannot reproduce by ourselves men and women need each other for species to exist association b/w them must exist.