In the area of interest of the present dissertation it has been tried to examine the meanings that the notion of autarkeia acquires in the philosophical thought of Aristotle, dealing initially with the problems concerning the ethical and political aspects of the term, that is the meaning that it acquires when it is referred to mankind, which on the other hand had already been examined by scholars, and then linger over the aspects of biology and Metaphysics. Just these latter, in (...) fact, until now had not been taken in consideration in a principal manner by scholars, and it is also because of this that it had explicitly been tried to conduct a research on autarkeia as most complete as possible, that is such to consider all of its recurrences in Aristotle. (shrink)