... perception of good and evil, just and unjust" . Being such a political animal, man succumbs to a natural urge and pairs off with a woman, similarly, a master pairs with a slave to better enable life and then, in succession, a household, a village and a state is formed; the end-product here is, supposedly a virtuous polis in a collective and individual sense. This process demonstrates the activities and institutions ... call its nature" and that "It is clear then that the state is both natural and prior to the individual" Hence, the polis is to be viewed as the final stage of natural gro...

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