... the foundations for his political theory in Book I by arguing that the city and political rule are "natural." The first states that the formation of cities is natural and the second pertains to the concept that man is by his own nature a political being. When Aristotle writes, "...the city belongs among the things that exist by nature..." (1253a2) it is stating that each city begins as a collection of koinônias. These associations are the bonds that men create between each other as a result of their natural social inclination and include the husband-wife community, the master-slave community, the village and or the clan, which are included within the realm of the household. The argument begins with human beings connected in pairs because they could not exist apart. The male and female joined in order to reproduce and to provide citizens, and the master and slave came together ...

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