2.3.2.11 Politics Man is a social being who can realize his...

2.3.2.11 Politics Man is a social being who can realize his true self only in society and the statethe state as the goal of evolution of human life is prior in worth and significance to its component societiesSocial life is the goal or end of human existencethe aim of the state is to produce good citizensAristotle was perhaps even more successful than Plato in steering a middle course between "statism" and individual.

The constitution of the state must be adapted to the character and requirements of its people. It is just when it confers equal rights on the people in so far as they are equal, and unequal rights in so far as they are unequal. There are good constitutions: the monarchy, the aristocracy and the polity a norm in which the citizens are nearly equal and bad forms: the tyranny, oligarchy and democracyAs the best state for his own time Aristotle advocates a…