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This paper describes the ways in which Aristotle relates the functioning of the city to the functioning of the family household in his text, "Politics." The paper argues that Aristotle based his analysis of the city on the structure of the family, since the family provides the foundational unit of the city itself. Multiple relationships within the familial household are considered.

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"Aristotle's 'Politics' details the ways in which political life is and should be lived in fourth century Greece. One of Aristotle's main arguments was that civic life was centered around the political structure of the city. The city, or polis, represented for Aristotle the best, and therefore final, "association," or set of relationships between individuals and groups (10). The city marks a pinnacle in a hierarchy of associations, moving from family, to village, to polis. The general building block of a city was considered to be the family, the smallest unit of association on which the polis was built. In the same way that men..."

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