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Comment: “The polis exists by nature and that it is prior to the individual.”

  • UPSC 2002
  • Western Political Thought

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The two claims come from Politics Book I, chapter 2, where Aristotle concludes that the state is a creation of nature, and that man is by nature a political animal. The polis is natural because it completes a natural growth, and prior to the individual by nature, not in time, because the whole is prior…

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  • The Polis Exists by Nature
  • Prior to the Individual
  • Critique
  • Revival and the Indian Anchor
  • Conclusion
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