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By Aristotle
Hence it is evident that the state is a creation of nature, and that man is by nature a political animal.
- Source
- The Politics of Aristotle, translated into English with introduction, marginal analysis, essays, notes and indices by B. Jowett, vol. 1, 1885 · Politics I.2, 1253a, p. 4
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- Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1885 (Jowett's translation)
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From the Politics, Book I, chapter 2, in Benjamin Jowett's English translation (Oxford, 1885). Aristotle is making the case that the state exists by nature, and that people are made for life in a community. The famous "political animal" line is the end of this sentence. The Politics is his treatise on government, so the words come to us in a translator's English.