Aristotelian Naturalism

Introduction

At the very starting of his Politics, Aristotle claims that man (anthropos) possesses an absolutely crucial nature. According to Aristotle, man is by environment a “social and political animal”. What Aristotle entails by this is not easily that human beings are routinely gregarious. Rather, in his outlook, man is an ethical being—one that is destined to reside an ethical life. In Aristotle's attitude, one-by-one human beings undergo a method of development over time. They evolve and become more mature. At the end of this method, they completely actualize the promise for ethical life that they owned at the beginning. To ...