POLITICS OF ARISTOTLE

NOTES, BOOK I. 2. 7

have probably a certain degree of truth in them. And doubtless

in history either form of monarchy may have taken the place of

the other; a series of undistinguished kings may have been in-

terrupted by the hero or legislator, and the hero or legislator may

have transmitted his power to his posterity. Cp. also iv. 13. $ 12.

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Either 'the relation of the members of the ~&pq (yiws) to one

another,' or ' to the original oirtia.'

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Odyssey ix. 114 ; again alluded to in Nicom. Ethics x. 9. 8 13,

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This is especially true of the Greeks, who limited the divine by

the human ; in other mythologies the idea of a superior being who

could not be conceived, led to extravagance and grotesqueness.

An6even among the Greeks, the light of fancy was always

breaking in, though not in such a manner as to impair the

harmony of the poetical vision.

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Opposed to ~p'pirs (8 5).

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' The state is created for the maintenance of life, but when once

o4ua partly derives its meaning from yiuopiy, 'having a true

established has a higher aim.'

being ' opposed to ' coming into being ' (cp. ohia and yiutacs).

4 82 46urs TAOS iaiu.
By Aristotle the end of a thing is said to be its nature; the best
and alone self-sufficing development of it. From this tran-
scendental point of view the state is prior to the individual, the
whole to the part ($ 12). But he is not always consistent in his
use of language ; for while in this passage he speaks of the state
as the end or final cause of the otia, in Nic. Ethics viii. 12. 7 he
also speaks of the oida as prior to the state and more necessary
(r+cpu rai.ciuay~a&cpou~i~io rolcwc). Cp. Categories c. 12, 14 a 26.

rimp mi ai rp&ar mwmvlar. 2. 8.