Political System In Aristotle's Politics

In the informative novel Politics written by Aristotle, the focus was to express the best way that a city can be ran efficiently through politics. During this book, Aristotle doesn't focus much on how the individual is affected by the city but focused more on how the city is formed by the individuals in it. An important element of the city is the household which he expressed is broken down in three different relationships. The relationships within the household are the husband and wife, father and son, and master and slave. Aristotle believed there were a natural selection of who should be in charge of the household and city from any aspect. Throughout this book, there is also an internal argument of how different political systems can effect

And he who by nature and not by mere accident is without a state, is either a bad man or above humanity." (Aristotle) The state therefore is the most important part of anything and man who does not partake in this state is inhumane. Throughout this text, this thought of the state's superiority is a lasting theme that Aristotle continues base the root of his politics off of. In the first chapter of his book, he shows his firm belief of the absolute initiative of the state's stability over anything else in the community such as marriages, children, friendships or anything else that could be of value to those individuals within the state. Another example of his bias for the state is when he states, "The proof that the state is a creation of nature and prior to the individual is that the individual, when isolated, is not self-sufficing; and therefore he is like a part in relation to the whole." In this quote, he is expressing his belief that individualism is none-existent and useless. According to Aristotle, the only importance is the well-being of the overall state, people just play its part to keep it running