POLI 100 Lecture : 3 Conceptions of Pol Outln.doc
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3 conceptions of politics: aristotle, politics, book i, basic of human associations families and villages > mere life , the polis the good life . And therefore, if the earlier forms of society are natural, so is the state, for it is the end of them, and the nature of the thing is its end(politics, 1252b28-33, emphasis added). {slide 3: people are by nature a political animals. That man is more of a political animal than bees or any other gregarious animals is evident. Nature, as we often say, make nothing in vain, and man is the only animal who has the gift of speech. And whereas mere voice is but an indication of pleasure or pain, and is therefore found in other animals , the power of speech is intended to set forth the expedient and the inexpedient, and therefore likewise the.
