 | Michael Sutton - 2002 - 352 trang
...Aristotle's own thought, a corollary of the notion expressed in the very same section of The Politics that 'man is by nature an animal intended to live in a. poll's'. 34 In this sense, therefore, a rapprochement can indeed be discerned between the thought of... | |
 | Hadley Arkes - 1986 - 448 trang
...is a "natural" association for human beings ("it is evident," he wrote, "that the polis [or polity] belongs to the class of things that exist by nature,...that man is by nature an animal intended to live in a polis"2). Like the family, the polity was an outgrowth or an emanation of human nature, and so the... | |
 | Chester G. Starr - 1986 - 144 trang
...civilization were first made explicit and conscious. Eventually Aristotle could sum up the product: "Man is by nature an animal intended to live in a polis." 20 CHAPTER II An Age of Chieftains Before the destruction of the Mycenaean political system in the... | |
 | Laurence A. Rickels - 1990 - 282 trang
...or to the beast. Cf. Politics I. 2, 1253a: "From these considerations it is evident that the polis belongs to the class of things that exist by nature, and that man is by nature a political animal. He who is without a polis, by reason of his own nature and not through some circumstance,... | |
 | Joel L. Kraemer - 1992 - 396 trang
...Politics, I, I, 1253a9; see E. Barker, The Politics of Aristotle (New York, 1962), p. 5, who translates, "Man is by nature an animal intended to live in a polis." Cf. Ethics, I. 7, I097bl 1 ("man is by nature a political thing"); and IX, 9, Il69bl9f. "It would be... | |
 | William John Bennett - 1994 - 274 trang
...passions of our time is deeply rewarding and enriching work. Politics is an adventure. Aristotle taught that "man is by nature an animal intended to live in a polls [city-state]." Political debates about the way in which we order our social life together are... | |
 | Hayward R. Alker - 1996 - 490 trang
...assemblies, and more scholarly and philosophical arguments about politics. It is part of his famous argument that "man is by nature an animal intended to live in a polis' (Politics: 1253a). It is that nature "makes nothing in vain; and man alone of the animals is furnished... | |
 | Josiah Ober, Charles Hedrick - 1996 - 490 trang
...4>i>aei noXitiKOV £ipov (These considerations make it evident that the city-state belongs to the group of things that exist by nature, and that man is by nature a social and political being). Cf. also Eth. Nic. 1.7, 1097bll and9.9, 1169bl8-19. Note also the phrase... | |
 | Karl-Heinz Pohl - 1999 - 440 trang
...can be conducted. Aristotle stated further, "From these considerations it is evident that the polis belongs to the class of things that exist by nature,...is by nature an animal intended to live in a polis [often translated as "man is by nature a political animal." - trans.]. He who is without a polis, by... | |
 | Franz Baermann Steiner - 1999 - 324 trang
...explanations. The conclusion is the famous passage: From these considerations it is evident that the polis belongs to the class of things that exist by nature,...is by nature an animal intended to live in a polis. He who is without a polis, by reason of his own nature and not of some accident, is either a poor sort... | |
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He who is without a polis, by reason of his own nature and not of some accident, is either a poor sort of being, or a being higher than man: he is like the man of whom Homer wrote in denunciation: Clanless and lawless and hearthless is he. 
