States are natural entities, and like other natural objects they have a goal or end. Teleology is a feature of Aristotle's political theory no less than his biology. A fundamental principle of democratic constitutions is liberty . . . One form of liberty is to rule ruled . . . It is the prerogative of citizens, and a large majority of the population does not possess citizenship.
Women have no liberty.
And there are slaves. Someone who, being a man, belongs by nature not to himself but to someone else, is a slave by nature. But they have no liberty and no rights. There is no need to embroider on such a well-known fact. Greek thinking begins with and for a long time holds to the proposition that mankind is divided into 'good' and 'bad,' and these terms are quite as much social, political, and economic as they are moral.