Aristotle's Concept of the State and the Good Life: A Critical Review

This Book tries to underline the essential role of the State in the attainment of the good life using both Aristotle's Politics and Nicomachean Ethics. Accordingly, it considers a-two-fold problems: Firstly, it recognizes and seeks to address the misconstrued notion of what the good life entails. Secondly, it also observes that the rationale behind the alleged misconception of what the good life involves, hinges on the discrepancy between political systems and their proper finality - promoting and ensuring the good and happy life for all the members of the polis. Furthermore, this research, using Aristotle's Politics and Nicomachean Ethics, corrects the misconstrued idea of the good life and the state. Interestingly, the rationale behind the above named works of Aristotle as the choicest texts of this research is that these classical works of Aristotle do not just identify what the good life is, they also suggest the various means through which human beings can attain happiness or the good life and thus, live harmoniously in any given state or society.