El zoon politikon y las aporías de la virtud en la Política de Aristóteles

Abstract

This paper analyzes the aporetical form through which Politics claims to combine the ethical virtue of the good man with the political virtue of the good citizen. While the former is characterized by the ability to rule over inferior anthropological beings in the domestic sphere, the latter is characterized by the political obedience due in the polis to individuals that are equal and free. This article tries to answer to the following question: how Aristotle justifies that a man that is legitimized by nature to rule in the oikos can be required to obey as a citizen of the polis?