If Aristotle is right and "Man is by nature a political animal" ...?

Question

What, would you say, his politics are?

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Answer 1

"...a treatise (4th century b.c.) by Aristotle, dealing with the structure, organization, and administration of the state, esp. the city-state as known in ancient Greece." -Dictionary definition.

If you understand that what he meant is that Man organizes along social roles, then yes, of course.

That makes a family, by definition, a political organ.

So his 'politics', then, are that he believes we are all social creatures bound to organize - and sometimes those organizations already exist and we are, well, born into them.

Answer 2

Aristoteles said  that man is by nature a political animal, (Politikon zoon). Zoon in Greek means sth that is alive, it does not mean animal in the sense we use it now for animals in the zoo for instance. A political zoon is a human being which thinks about the society, because politikon, is a word stemming from politeia, and politeia is society, and not politics. So there are no politics behind the political animal.

Answer 3

Aristotle wasn't right. He was left.

Answer 4

If you take "political" to mean a creature obsessed with power, then yes, sadly, most are.

Answer 5

"Political" from polis - a city state in ancient Greece.

In effect Aristotle was saying that the natural state of a human is to be living as part of a social structure, ideally as part of the social infrastructure of a society comparable to his own.