El carácter “por naturaleza” de la politicidad aristotélica

Abstract

“The ‘According to Nature’ Character of Aristotelian Politics”. In this paper we try to analyze the “according to nature” character that Aristotle attributes to human politics. We start this examination by paying attention, in the first two chapters of book I of the Politics together with some passages belonging to book III, to a reconstruction and explanation of the different descriptions and arguments that Aristotle offers about the origins of the polis and of men as “political animals” “by nature”. We shall then try to emphasize some of the metaphysical and physical assumptions that underlie the “by nature” character attributed to politics, in order to explain such character within the Aristotelian views discussed in the Politics. Finally, we shall show the reciprocal collaboration that Aristotle establishes between the “natural” tendency of man to politics and the human will of the founder of the polis.