POLISCI 359 Study Guide - Quiz Guide: Gluttony
9 Feb 2016
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Man is intended by nature to be a part of a political whole. If he be without virtue, he is unholy and savage; will indulge in lust and gluttony. Justice is an ordering of the political association; justice belongs to the polis. Husband/wife and master/slave have been attributed to natural necessities; the family as daily recurrent needs, the village as. Something more : polis as third and final form of still higher and still more spiritual needs. Polis fulfills the whole nature of man and higher part of nature, and that is why it has reached the height of full self-sufficiency: polis is natural; the final and perfect condition of ultimate development.
