A central idea of this blog is that ‘polis’ and ‘psyche’ (city-state and soul) are two manifestations of the same archetype. ‘Polis’ is a macrocosm and ‘psyche’ is a microcosm, but they are fundamentally similar, having the same ‘axial structure’. In my post the ‘Characteristics of Politics’ I referenced Aristotle’s famous quote that “man is a political animal” and affirmed his distinction between political and social, which contrasts man as political animal with bees who are merely social according to the Hakim (Arabic epithet for Aristotle meaning ‘wise one’).