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Whenever we hear the word POLITICS, what usually comes to our minds are the images of politicians and their policies.  Others think of dirty tricks and corruption as they are linked to politics.  The right definition seemed to have been lost by those representations that don’t tend to pinpoint exactly the true essence of politics.  A systematic approach is required to finally make an attempt to define what politics really is.  We will consider a brief overview of the term to begin with and to understand the origin of this word.

The term POLITICS comes from the Greek word “polis” which means the state or the community as a whole.  The concept of “polis” was an ideal state.  It came from great political thinkers’ writings such as that of Aristotle and Plato.  Plato describes what the ideal state is and the means to be able to achieve it in his novel “The Republic”.  Politics originally has connotations in the ways to create the ideal society.  The ideal society here is a difficult aim to achieve.  It implies measures which should be implemented so to create a society that is better than the present.  When Aristotle and Plato saw the imperfections in our society, they are prompted to write their philosophies about our politics.  And so these provides the very first written politics recognition.