In this collection of lecture notes, Aristotle imbarks on a thorough analysis of States: their formation, their variety, their rise, their fall, and what he finds to be their best form. In his efforts, Aristotle makes quite a few comments on human nature, faously stating that man is a political animal that when placed in a group of other men, they all collectivley will try to govern themselves. Aristotle calls into question what being a citizen means, and asks us to consider what obligations the citizen and the State have. I am unsure if he was the first to coin the term, but Aristotle was easily one of the first to recognize the middle class, or the people he understood to not be poor nor to be rich and to be of a mid level of virtue. In his discusstion of the middle class, Aristotle makes a statement that impacted make grealty, and it is one that I often consider whilist pondering political ideas: that a just State should prioritize the needs and virtuistic developent of the middle class. This work is great to read directly after reading Plato's Republic, as it brings much of the idealistic concepts mentioned in The Republic into practical terms, while also bringing up critques to Plato's ideal city. Aristotle is controversial in academica over his opinion on slaves and women, which is almost hilariously brought up in the first chapter of his political works. In which he states that women, despite being complementary to men, are often times inferior and that some men are naturally inferior and deserve to be enslaved.