1. aristotle
[COMMENTS: (1) This premiss is basic to Aristotle's understanding of nature; it occurs in several places in his writings, including Physics II.8. (2) Aristotle distinguishes the capacity of human beings to use language from the possession by many animals (including humans) of a voice which can signal pleasure and pain. (3) Here Aristotle's focus is on the use of language in exercising the virtue of intelligence and the virtues of character, the justice of which he here speaks being conceived as virtue of character in so far as it affects other human beings (Nicomachean Ethics V.1). ...
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