will examine three principles that underlie the political order of Aristotles ideas: The individual and family (the bottom "rungs" of the ideal polis), the village (the next step up) and

trust that must exist between people in order to cultivate friendship (Aristotle PG). As such, one can readily associate the manner by which Aristotles Nichomachean Ethics illustrates how friendship

considered the primary principles of politics and law to be "the search for the greatest good of society as a whole" (Anonymous, 2001). Inasmuch as the original Greek legal

ancient Greece population was not that abundant, with large plots of land essentially keeping people separated from one another, there was no pressing need to establish any laws; however, as

thing together (the artist constructing the piece); and the "final cause" considered the end or purpose of the piece. While artifacts require all of these elements to exist, things which