ABSTRACT
Society in its political aspect, the state, is at the same time an instrument for the co-operative achievement of satisfactions, a structure through and within which to build the good life, a response in its traditions and institutions to a need for the social embodiment of their ideals which men widely feel— although, of course, it does not follow that any given state necessarily achieves that embodiment. Man cannot live by bread alone, or even by bread and circuses. The modern political scientist, no less than Aristotle, needs to consider the factors making for personal fulfilment or for what the ancient Greek called the good life. Aristotle regarded leisure as the end of toil: people work in order to live. Society must also be concerned with the relationship between leisure and the good life, with the opportunities leisure provides and the capacity to make use of them.
