Aristotle

"Nature, as we say, does nothing without some purpose; and for thepurpose of making mana political animal she has endowed him alone among the animals with the power of reasoned speech."

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Source: c.330 BC Politics, bk.1, ch.2,1253b (translated by T A Sinclair).

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Aristotle

Aristotle

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Aristotle was an ancient Greek philosopher whose works on ethics, metaphysics, and politics laid foundational principles for Western thought.

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