Plato and aristotle on democracy6/12/2023 ![]() ![]() The principal concern of Plato and Aristotle was to discover the norms and rules that govern the life of the political community as the good life enabling the flourishing of the human individual." Individuals as social beings realise their essential human potentialities in and through the political community, in relation to rather than as against each other. It follows that the flourishing of the individual required a social context that is devoted to realising the good life. The human being as a zoon politikon or social animal is not an isolated, autonomous entity but a part of society, living in a social context. The most important question discussed by Plato and Aristotle concerns the nature of the relation of the individual to the political community. Plato and Aristotle defined the key themes of ‘rational freedom’ and sought to show how these could be embodied in the polity. "Part of the PhD thesis Marx and Rational Freedom by Peter Critchley Plato and Aristotle defined the concept and established the philosophical foundations of what may be called ‘rational freedom’. ![]()
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