By Aristotle, R. F. Stalley
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II. “A human being by nature is an animal meant for the city”— Politics I, 2 It has been said that passages at the end the Nicomachean Ethics subordinate the Politics to the Ethics. Is this really true, or does the Politics stand on its own and have its intrinsic value separate from the Ethics? A comparison of two passages is a good place to start. The first one is from the Ethics: “And what is referred to as self-sufficiency would be present most of all in the contemplative life, for while the wise and the just person, and the rest, are in need of the things that are necessary for living, when they are sufficiently equipped with such things, a just person still needs people toward whom and with whom he will act justly, and similarly with the temperate and the courageous person and each of the others, but the wise person is able to contemplate even when he is by himself, and more so to the extent that he is the more wise.
Likewise, Aristotle’s investigation of politics has a guiding principle, but it is not one long logical sequence with one single beginning. It may involve multiple beginnings and follow along multiple paths. These multiple beginnings and paths are meant to be grasped and understood as a whole, even though the presentation of this understanding has to be broken up and arranged on pages in a sequence. This inherent tension between the understanding of the whole and its presentation in parts may be at the root of much of the discontent over the organization of the book.
But while the Politics that Aristotle wrote does have a dialectical side, and while it does contribute to the practical political task, that dialectic does not and cannot replace or override the variety of practical arrangements that circumstances call for. This is true not only because the political art, like that of the doctor, must be applied to human beings who vary, so that there can never be a single right approach to curing their ills; in the case of political life, some strong traditional human opinions will necessarily guide and limit the organization of political communities from the outset.