Politics
1.
“Every state is a community of some kind, and every community is established with a view to
some good; for mankind always act in order to obtain that which they think good. But, if all
communities aim at some good, the state or political community, which is the highest of all, and
which embraces all the rest, aims at good in a greater degree than any other, and at the highest
good.”
“Further, the state is by nature clearly prior to the family and to the individual, since the whole is
of necessity prior to the part; for example, if the whole body be destroyed, there will be no foot or
hand,except in an equivocal sense, as we might speak of a stone hand; for when destroyed the
hand will be no better than that. But things are defined by their working and power; and we ought
not to say that they are the same when they no longer have their proper quality, but only that they
have the same name. The proof that the state is a creation of nature and prior to the individual is
that the individual, when isolated, is not selfsufficing;
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 need because he is 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 founded the state was the greatest of benefactors. For
man, when perfected, is the best of animals, but, when separated from law and justice, he is the
worst of all; since armed injustice is the more dangerous, and he is equipped at birth with arms,
meant to be used by intelligence and virtue,which he may use for the worst ends. Wherefore, if
he have not virtue, he is the most unholy and the most savage of animals, and the most full of
lust and gluttony. But justice is the bond of men in states, for the administration of justice, which
is the determination of what is just, is the principle of order in political society.”
Politics
1.
“Every state is a community of some kind, and every community is established with a view to
some good; for mankind always act in order to obtain that which they think good. But, if all
communities aim at some good, the state or political community, which is the highest of all, and
which embraces all the rest, aims at good in a greater degree than any other, and at the highest
good.”
“Further, the state is by nature clearly prior to the family and to the individual, since the whole is
of necessity prior to the part; for example, if the whole body be destroyed, there will be no foot or
hand,except in an equivocal sense, as we might speak of a stone hand; for when destroyed the
hand will be no better than that. But things are defined by their working and power; and we ought
not to say that they are the same when they no longer have their proper quality, but only that they
have the same name. The proof that the state is a creation of nature and prior to the individual is
that the individual, when isolated, is not selfsufficing;
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 need because he is 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 founded the state was the greatest of benefactors. For
man, when perfected, is the best of animals, but, when separated from law and justice, he is the
worst of all; since armed injustice is the more dangerous, and he is equipped at birth with arms,
meant to be used by intelligence and virtue,which he may use for the worst ends. Wherefore, if
he have not virtue, he is the most unholy and the most savage of animals, and the most full of
lust and gluttony. But justice is the bond of men in states, for the administration of justice, which
is the determination of what is just, is the principle of order in political society.”
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