As political beasts but also beasts with political beliefs, we humans all have an interest to delimit the exercise of political powers. To do this we could embark on a project of examining every political issue and policy, past, present, and hypothetical, plotting them each, one by one, inside or outside the circle of "the good." The task of identifying and plotting the set of all points inside or outside of the circumference of any circle is an exhaustive and ultimately exhausting chore. It is far more elegant to describe the circle itself, the set of points equidistant from a discrete center, and the area of that circle, πr2.
To discern the center and to discern radiation from the center, this is the aim of political philosophy.
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