Abstract

TIERNO, Patricio. Critics and their democracy: the meaning of naturalism politician of Aristotle. Conjectura: filos. e Educ. [online]. 2018, vol.23, n.spe3, pp.12-50.  Epub Sep 02, 2019. ISSN 2178-4612.  https://doi.org/10.18226/21784612.v23.dossie.2.

This article seeks to provide a reinterpretation of Aristotle’s political naturalism from the initial point of view of the ancient critics of Athenian democratic regime and the oligarchic bias of contemporary intellectual and philosophical history. For that purpose, it advances the naturalist theses formulated in the second chapter of the First Book of the Politics. In that reconstructive context, it will be maintained that a structural grasp of these arguments as well as of the historical reality represented by the polis makes possible to elucidate the sistemic and functional conception that is entailed in the proposition which affirms the priority of the city in relation to its original minor communities and constitutive elements. In this manner, in a process of argumentative reconstruction that links various textual references and stresses the natural, developmental and substantial character of Greek polis, it will be consistently revealed the egalitarian and democratic traits of Aristotelian citizenship that lay at the base of the plural organization of political community considering its resemblance to the constitution of an organic whole and its inter-connected parts.

Keywords : Athenian democracy; Aristotle; Political naturalism.

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