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Comment: “The state is a creation of nature and man is by nature a political animal.” (Aristotle)

  • UPSC 2011
  • Western Political Thought

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The sentence closes the genetic argument of Politics Book I, chapter 2, and opens with Hence it is evident. It is a conclusion, not an axiom, aimed at the sophist Lycophron's view that law is a mere convention, a surety to one another of justice. Aristotle answers that political life completes human nature: the state…

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  • Nature as Telos
  • Political, Not Merely Gregarious
  • Its Enduring Force
  • Critiques
  • The Indian Resonance
  • Conclusion
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