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When discussing his theory of the existence of the state, Aristotle begins by arguing that both the state and political rule are natural. Aristotle explains how the state is made up of smaller and simpler association. First, man and women combined in pairs, for they could not naturally live apart. Then, slave and man combined; thus, according to nature the household association was formed. When several households combined, for self-preservation, the village emerged. The state is the end of both the household and the village, being their completion in the fullest sense.
Aristotle explains how "the nature of things consist in their end or consummation, for what each thing is when its growth is completed we call the nature of that thing". He elaborates further that this final outcome is the best form of the 'original thing' and the self sufficient form. Therefore based on this theory, the state exists by nature, it is the consummation of all associations and therefore is the highest......

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