| John Schrems - 2004 - 408 ˹éÒ
...can be exceptions to the rule but they are indeed exceptions. Aristotle expressed this by observing: "He who is unable to live in society, or who has no...sufficient for himself, must be either a beast or a god." Aristotle did not spend time describing the beast and gods because they were so rare, they were self-identifying,... | |
| Oliver J. Thatcher - 2004 - 460 ˹éÒ
...when isolated, is not self-sufficing : and therefore he is like a part in relation to the whole. But he who is unable to live in society, or who has no...sufficient for himself, must be either a beast or a god : he is no part of a state. A social instinct is implanted in all men by nature, and yet he who first... | |
| Nancy Yousef - 2004 - 286 ˹éÒ
...discoveries of our contemporaries. AUTONOMOUS BEASTS AND PERFECTIBLE HUMANS: NATURAL MAN AS IMAGINARY ANIMAL He who is unable to live in society, or who has no...sufficient for himself, must be either a beast or a god. ARISTOTLE, Politics In tracing some of the ways that the complex relationship between seemingly empirical... | |
| Simon Bromley - 2004 - 578 ˹éÒ
...humans who are not slaves 'by nature' are 'by nature' fitted for politics, according to Aristotle; and 'he who is unable to live in society, or who has no...sufficient for himself, must be either a beast or a god .... A social instinct is implanted in all men by nature' (1996, p.14). For Aristotle, these people... | |
| Gilbert Rist - 2002 - 308 ˹éÒ
...clearly prior to the family and to the individual, since the whole is of necessity prior to the part; ... he who is unable to live in society, or who has no...sufficient for himself, must be either a beast or a god: he is no part of a State.'11 This quotation shows that things should be understood in accordance with... | |
| W. Wesley McDonald - 2004 - 260 ˹éÒ
...toward a love to our country, and to mankind. — Edmund Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France [H]e who is unable to live in society, or who has...sufficient for himself, must be either a beast or god: he is no part of a state. A social instinct is implanted in all men by nature . . . — Aristotle,... | |
| RC Agarwal - 2004 - 580 ˹éÒ
...not by mere accident is without state, is either above humanity or below it." In other words he says, "He who is unable to live in society or who has no...sufficient for himself, must be either a beast or god. There is no doubt about it that man is a social and political animal because he cannot do without... | |
| Cyril Smith - 2005 - 248 ˹éÒ
...is either a bad man or above humanity; ... he may be compared to an isolated piece at draughts. ... He who is unable to live in society, or who has no...himself, must be either a beast or a god. (Politics, 1253a) 7 justice has a natural basis. However, the way any particular polis functions must be decided... | |
| P. J. Heslin, Peter Heslin - 2005 - 388 ˹éÒ
...the competing conceptions of Achilles' family background come into conflict in the Achilleid. * "But he who is unable to live in society, or who has no...sufficient for himself, must be either a beast or a god" (trans. Jowett) Arist. Polit. 12533. 1 Koster (1979: 199), and contra, Aricó (1986: 2960). 2 A rough... | |
| Julia Reinhard Lupton - 2005 - 291 ˹éÒ
...even dangerous, excellence of the philosopher, the hero, or the saint.4 Again, Aristotle is pertinent: "[H]e who is unable to live in society, or who has...sufficient for himself, must be either a beast or a god: he is no part of a state" (Politics 1253a). The tragic hero is a sacred monster, both beast and god,... | |
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