When Aristotle Writes That We Are Social by Nature, the Greek

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Essay

When Aristotle writes that we are social by nature, the Greek he used is literally that we are "political animals." Do you think that our social and political impulses and orientations go to the essence of what it means to be human? How substantively do you think we are formed by the traditions of our communities--social, economic, political, religious, and other institutions? (Note that Aristotle didn't differentiate between the social and the political as we do. For him, "political" also meant what we mean by "social.")

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