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52 Polish Pol. Sci. Y.B. 7 (2023)

handle is hein.journals/ppsy52 and id is 1 raw text is: PoLSH PoimcAL SCIENCE YEARBOOK, vol. 52(1) (2023), pp. 7-28 DOI: https://doi.org/10.15804/ppsy202265 PL ISSN 0208-7375 www.czasopisma.marszalek.com.pl/10-15804/ppsy Clifford Angell Bates Warsaw University (Poland) ORCID: 0000-0002-6454-0925 e-mail: c.a.bates@uw.edu.pl Trevor Shelley Arizona State University (United States) ORCID: 0000-0002-2529-1647 e-mail: Trevor.Shelley@asu.edu Restoring the Distinctiveness of Politics: On the Political and the Forms of Rule Abstract: We argue that the current understanding of politics is caught in a tug of war be- tween economistic and postmodern views, neither of which captures the distinctiveness of political rule and consequently instills confusion among citizens and misplaced expecta- tions from leaders. Drawing largely on Aristotle, who warned precisely against this error, we consider the logic of mastery and contrast it to paternal rule. Then we discuss the voluntary nature of economic activity to distinguish it from the involuntary nature of mastery, before turning to discuss the political proper, which is a combination or mixture of these two that nevertheless makes it qualitatively distinct. These distinctions help us to better appreciate what is a likeness between political and economic, on the one hand, and between politi- cal and paternal, on the other while realising that political rule is not exhausted by either economic or paternal alone. The paper seeks to show that political rule finds itself as an in-between condition that balances itself against despotic, mastery, and the kind of care that paternal rule points to. Keywords: the political, Aristotle, forms, the economic, ruling Introduction Today's understanding of politics amounts to an impasse between two typical, but altogether partial, views. The first sees politics as ultimately a matter of interest aggregation while the second considers politics to consist largely of domination or hegemonic control. But neither of these viewpoints captures the complexity and distinctiveness of politics. Rather, each of

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