Aristotle's treatment of politics property begins, not with a discussion of elections and public administration but rather with a treatment of property, and not real (land) or personal (movable) property but rather persons as property, or slaves. What is

Human rationality is a naturally occurring, organic structure, and so are its products. For example, Aristotle refers to the "art of acquiring property" (21) as arising more or less organically, from nature, which implies that it is an aspect of the most fundamental human experience of the world. Similarly, in Chapter 2 (8) and in the preamble to Chapter 5 (15), Aristotle cites the master's intelligence, or rational soul as an instrument of authority and rule over the slave as a part of nature. It is the master, of course, who possesses rational human faculty, while the slave possesses only so much rational capacity as will allow him to understand and carry out the master's orders. In the preamble to Chapter 8 he continues: "Nature intends and provides the requisites for househol

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ucture of the polis, it follows that the structure of human and institutional relationships in households and in the wider political context can also be classified. It is in this way that Aristotle arrives at his classification of the different forms of rule. These forms of rule, each in their way, also point to a more comprehensive understanding of the good, which in the polis is the good or the happiness of mankind, or more exactly of man as a creative--and above all social--being: The good life is the chief end, both for the community as a whole and for each of us individually. But people also come together, and form and maintain political associations, merely for the sake of life; for perhaps there is some element of the good even in the simple fact of living, so long as the evils of existence do not preponderate too heavily. It is an evident fact that most people cling hard enough to life to be willing to endure a good deal of suffering, which implies that life has in it a sort of healthy happiness and a natural quality of pleasure (98). Aristotle distinguishes between two kinds of rule, that of master over slave and that of master over wife and children (98-99). In the former case, rule is "primarily exercised with a vie
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