Each historical epoch, each new format of human communication (κοινωνία), which, according to Aristotle, is the essence of human community (polity), encourages everyone interested in this issue to turn to the fundamental grounds of knowledge about politics; again and again to think over their (grounds) significance for modernity. The purpose of this study is based on the desire to discover and point out some of the "bottlenecks" of Aristotle's classical conclusions, which arise, either as a result of the author's attitude, or because of the interpretations that appear as a result of translation. The work is devoted to the interpretation of Aristotle's method (the dichotomy of the whole and the part, which the philosopher speaks of as the "method" learned by his interlocutors earlier). We aim to explain to what extent this method is applicable not within the framework of the policy, limited by its own chronotope (historical time-space), but in the format of a modern state. We use the dialogic form of political reflection in the presentation of the main material of the article. We have identified the following propositions as conclusions. Firstly, the whole should be sought not in plurality or in a certain set of changing features, that is, it is impossible to endow variables with this quality. Secondly, the political whole is not a state (plurality) and not a citizen (singular), but statehood, which combines both principles - collective and individual.
the research was carried out at the expense of a grant from the Russian Science Foundation (project № 22-78-10049 “The state and the citizen in the new digital reality”).
Belous V. G. Interaction between the state and the citizen as a collision of the whole and the part (on the question of the essence of political wholeness). Kaspiyskiy region: politika, ekonomika, kultura [The Caspian Region: Politics, Economics, Culture]. 2023, no. 3 (76), pp. 160–169. https://doi.org/10.54398/1818510Х_2023_3_160.
