Classical Political Philosophy
Politics
Aristotle • A Treatise on Government, the Polis, and the Citizen
DAILY PHILOSOPHICAL CONTEMPLATION
Book I • The Political Animal
"Man is by nature a political animal. A man that is by nature and not merely by fortune citiless is either low in the scale of humanity or above it."
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Aristotle: Politics
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