Open AccessNatural politics according to Aristotle
Author(s) -
Annick Jaulin
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
filozofija i društvo
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.116
H-Index - 1
eISSN - 2334-8577
pISSN - 0353-5738
DOI - 10.2298/fid1802157j
Subject(s) - politics , natural (archaeology) , context (archaeology) , socratic method , epistemology , philosophy , state (computer science) , expression (computer science) , the republic , political philosophy , environmental ethics , sociology , political science , law , history , archaeology , algorithm , computer science , programming language
What does Nature mean in the famous Aristotelian formula ?man is, by nature, a political animal?? Within the context of the discussion with the Socratic assertions in Plato?s Republic, Nature means that polis is not the result of deficiency, but the expression of a positive desire. Thus, for human beings, there is no state of nature before political life. This does not mean that everything that is political is natural.