Year: 2025
Type: article
Abstract: This paper addresses the fundamental political anthropological assumption underlying and shaping Aristotle’s regime science. I hope to show how assumptions about the natural sociability of human beings, the intersection of human nature (biologically and socially understood), and the aggregated construction of the human political habitat through discrete structures underlie Aristotle’s understanding of how and why human beings use the political community to achieve their optimal condition for their existence. And to show how Aristotle’s political, anthropological assumptions offer a critique of the anthropological assumptions that drive much of not only modern political thought, but also contemporary political science.
Source: Teoria Polityki
Author: Clifford Angell Bates
Institution: University of Warsaw
Language: English
Subfield: Philosophy
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W4414410320