1. Aristotle
Man is both a social and political animal in that we are inclined to live in society as well as attempt to perceive what is just and unjust and, act accordingly as "men do in fact aim at what they think good." ... The polis takes the individual further than self-sufficiency alone, it is man's need to express what is just and moral within a formidably-sized group that pushes the process of "association forming" to its state-based natural end. ... Aristotle states that the "aim and the end is perfection; and self-sufficiency is both end and perfection" but when he talks of self-sufficien...
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