12. Autarkeia, ‘political and/or economic independence’. Aristotle’s use of the word here is however somewhat wider than this, and embraces opportunities to live the ‘good’ life according to the human virtues.

13. Aristotle makes succinct use of his teleological technicalities: the ‘aim’ (‘that-for-the-sake-of-which’, to hou heneka) is the ‘final cause’, the ‘end’ or purpose towards which a process of development is directed and in which it culminates.

14. Politikon zōon, ‘who lives whose nature is to live, in a polis (state)’; cf. Nicomachean Ethics, I vii ad fin.

15. Iliad IX, 63.