THE PRE-POLITICAL AND THE POLITICAL IN ARISTOTLE’S POLITICS
THE PRE-POLITICAL AND THE POLITICAL IN ARISTOTLE’S POLITICS

Summary/Abstract: The paper argues that the distinction between the pre-political and the political in the form of the household and the state is essential to the understanding of Aristotle’s communal projects. The analysis with the help of this distinction reveals the structure and principles of Aristotelian communal projects and removes tensions, which are rooted in different and frequently incompatible statements of Aristotle. In the course of the paper, it is showed that the household and the state can be defined as separate and yet interdependent communities and how these definitions affect the understanding of concrete constitutional communities.

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