Society And State, And Aristotle's Theory Of Wellbeing And Development

Human being formed society and state for their wellbeing and development. The family, village, society and the state is formed in natural process as described by Aristotle. The evolution of state has arrived from the welfare activities carried out by the kings and their institutions. In a society, the state becomes the governing institution which takes care of its people with particular emphasis on weaker sections, governs the society and its institutions through rule, law and order and allow its people to participate in smooth function of the society. Every community exists for the sake of some good for themselves and State will work for the betterment of people in a normal process (Zarri, 1948; Trevor, 1995). Plato viewed the main goal of a society and state is to
Therefore, people were forced to create a group to govern them and resolve their problem. They created powerful body through voluntary social contract to ensure peace and natural rights of every individual in the society (Zarri, 1948). When there is peace and protection of right of everybody in a society and state, people would be able to do things for their wellbeing and development. Marxists had very critical view on state from structural and class aspects. State is an irrational abstract system of political domination; it doesn’t allow the social nature of man and involvement in public life. It is not an independent and sovereign political entity, which is used to meet the interest of rulers and elites. Therefore, the states should be ruled by proletariat through revolution to empower people (Engels, 1844b in Tabor, ----; Joseph, 1982). Accordingly, the weaker section after coming to power, will work for development of people. Ross (1937) further credited the view of Aristotle and argued that ¨The state does not exist merely by convention but is rooted in human