No thinker has had a far more profound influence on western civilisation than Aristotle. Whether we realise it or not really, his work has been one of the main props of our culture for over two thousand years. Underlying all of it is certainly a conviction that system and order can be found to govern everything, also human conduct. In the Ethics and Politics Aristotle examines what is most effective kind of lifestyle, and what is most effective kind of society to make this possible.