Question:
Can you think of examples from your everyday life when you encounter politics? What makes these experiences “political?”Have you experienced similar situations? Can you think of creative ways in which politics plays itself out in your daily life?
Answer:
Aristotle views man as political in nature and thus, he is compelled by his nature to form political associations which are intended to aid him to achieve a good life. There lacks a single definition of politics due to its common use to refer to various ideas, different systems, and factual world issues. It is thus, impossible to define politics using a single aspect but as a collection of diverse aspects of life take in as one. Politics, therefore, is perceived as a process of decision making. As such politics is accountable for various facets of society and thus, plays a significant role in everyone’s lives (Barker, P.21).
Politics as a process of decision-making plays a vital role in aspects such as planning, investment, and implementation of policies that improves a society (Anthony, P.39). Some of the core areas that I encounter politics include health sector and public transport. Experiences in these two sectors are political in the sense that the process involved in making policies and financing of projects in these two areas is a political process. I have experienced similar situations especially when the area of health is not working efficiently due to inadequate funding from the government or when public transport is negatively affected by the implementation of poor policies.
It is evident that politics is intrinsic in man’s life because in everyday shopping be it of a car or any other taxable food stuff or a machine, politics plays an essential part because of the Value Added Tax (VAT). From the experience, it is clear that politics is and remains a vital part of our lives and determine to a greater extent how we cooperate with the world around us.
Works cited
Anthony, Robert M. “Bringing up the past: Political experience and the distribution of urban
populations.” Cities 37 (2014): 33-46.
Barker, Ernest. The political thought of Plato and Aristotle. Courier Corporation, 2012.
