Examines Aristotle's approaches to how to develop a political community based on the notions of justice and friendship.

Kazutaka Inamura is Lecturer in the Faculty of Education at Hirosaki University, Japan.

1. Aristotelian political theories in a liberal democracy; 2. The good life and a good polis; 3. Democracy, polity and the mixed constitution; 4. Civic virtue; 5. Civic friendship; 6. Reciprocity in the political economy; Conclusions.