Man as ζῷον πολιτικόν. An Interpretative Hypothesis of a Fundamental Lemma of Aristotelian Thought

Abstract

The following article is about the famous question of man as a political animal (ζῷον πολιτικόν), that emerges from the ethical-political and biological works of Aristotle. In view of the problems connected with the main interpretations (rationalistic approach, biological approach and Mulgan’s theory), we will try to link the problem of human politics to the horizon of the community (κοινωνία), which is the real key to understand the meaning of this “politics”.