saying that politics is implied throughout the structure and development of ethics, a point that takes up the whole of Chapter 2. As Rorty puts it, Aristotle's ethics "appears firmly within psychology, and it moves to political theory" (Rorty, 1980, p. 2). A similar point is made by Hardie, who further implies that the audience for Nicomachean Ethics is intended to be the political man, presumably one of the ruling class who is in training for the purpose of ruling properly: "Aristotle remarks later that the student of politics must study psychology up to the point required for the questions he is discussing" (Hardie, 1980, p. 25). The point is that one must never lose sight of the fact that Aristotle is creating a specific context for his discussion of ethics and that context is decidedly public.
But Aristotle also says that ethics and the development of ethical man must precede the development of the state. If that is not the case, then political development is bound to occur in an inappropriate manner: "a young man is not a fit person to attend lectures o
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