Aristotle thought that the notion Good is beyond particular goods and saw the state as a community of language users. in his view, the axis of morality was language, as it is language that gives humans access to reason as well as to the good and bad. Aristotle considered the city to be a natural community. Moreover, he considered the city to be prior to the family which in turn is prior to the individual. He is also famous for his statement that "man is by nature a political animal." Aristotle conceived of politics as being like an organism rather than like a machine, and as a collection of parts none of which can exist without the others.
The modern understanding of a political community is that of the state. However, the state was foreign to Aristotle. He referred to political communities as cities. Aristotle understood a city as a political "partnership" . Subsequently, a city is created not to avoid injustice or for economic stability , but rather to live a good life: "The political partnership must be regarded, therefore, as being for the sake of noble actions, not for the sake of living together".
The first round of elections in Romania yesterday left us all with our greatest fear confirmed. Romanian President, Traian Basescu and the leader of the Social Democrat Party, Mircea Geoana obtained the necessary votes to go on to the second round on December 6th. Our hopes were shattered even more, when Liberal Candidate, Crin Antonescu gave a bitter speech at the end of the voting process, while celebrating the results of exit polls. personally, I felt little confidence in this Liberal Candidate, because my inner voice, (fueled by information I got from watching him in his campaign) was giving me signals of inconsistency on his behalf, which, unfortunately were confirmed last night.
Once more do we, Romanians need to choose the smaller of the two disasters awaiting to happen. Before the first round, I had a faint idea of hope as regards the future five years in Romania. Today, I turn to Aristotle for wisdom. He thought that what made a political regime be good was NOT conformity to an ideal norm, but the adaptation to concrete historical data. Today, this true statement teaches me how to vote, provided I survive the sickness and deep shame that I feel at the end of this round.