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" When several villages are united in a single complete community, large enough to be nearly or quite selfsufficing, the state comes into existence, originating in the bare needs of life, and continuing in existence for the sake of a good life. "
Introduction and translation - Page 3
by Aristotle, Benjamin Jowett - 1885
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The Politics of Aristotle, Volume 1

Aristotle - 1885 - 460 pages
...state comes into existence, originating in hiehestthe bare needs of life, and continuing in'existence for the sake of a good life. And therefore, if the...them, and the [completed] nature is the end. For what s / each thing is when fully developed, we call its~~nalure, ' whether we are speaking of a man, a...
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The State & the Individual: An Introduction to Political Science, with ...

William Sharp McKechnie - 1896 - 476 pages
...implied in the well-known saying of Aristotle, that " the State comes into existence, originating in the bare needs of life and continuing in existence for the sake of a good life."1 Apart from the State, the mere physical existence of man as man is impossible ; but this is...
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Studies in the Politics of Aristotle and the Republic of Plato, Volume 1

Isaac Althaus Loos - 1899 - 308 pages
...originating for the object of living, but going on for the object of living well — or originating in the bare needs of life, and continuing in existence for the sake of a good life."3 • And, therefore, if the earlier forms of society are natural, so is the city-state, for...
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Studies in the Politics of Aristotle and the Republic ..., Volume 1, Issues 1-2

Isaac Althaus Loos - 1899 - 312 pages
...originating for the object of living, but going on for the object of living well — or originating in the bare needs of life, and continuing in existence for the sake of a good life."3 And, therefore, if the earlier forms of society are natural, so is the city-state, for it (ji...
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The Ethics of the Greek Philosophers, Socrates, Plato and Aristotle: A ...

James Hervey Hyslop - 1903 - 502 pages
...large enough to be nearly or quite self-sufficing, the state comes into existence, originating in the bare needs of life, and continuing in existence for...sake of a good life. And therefore, if the earlier (205) forms of society are natural, so is the state, for it is the end of them, and the (completed)...
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The Dialectic of Plotinus, Volume 2, Issues 1-6

Harry Allen Overstreet - 1909 - 326 pages
...each higher form of association. "The state comes into existence," said Aristotle, "originating in the bare needs of life, and continuing in existence for the sake of a good life." It is this additional resistance to going back which is the security of human progress, and which marks...
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The Political Theories of Martin Luther, Volume 4

Luther Hess Waring - 1910 - 310 pages
...degree than any other, at the highest good. . . . The state comes into existence, originating in the bare needs of life, and continuing in existence for the sake of a good life. . . . Justice is the bond of men in states, and the administration of justice, which is the determination...
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A Source-book of Ancient History

George Willis Botsford, Lillie M. Shaw Botsford - 1912 - 616 pages
...to be nearly or quite self-suffic- ae |KJ " ing, the state comes into existence, originating in the bare needs of life, and continuing in existence for the sake of a good life. 97 Situation. Aristotle, Politics, vii. 11. Arrangement of houses In streets. II. THE FOUNDING OF A...
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On Taking Politics Seriously

William Loftus Hare - 1913 - 24 pages
...large enough to be nearly or quite self-supporting, the polis comes into existence, originating in the bare needs of life, and continuing in existence for...end of them, and the (completed) nature is the end. Hence it is evident that the state is a creation of nature, and that man is by nature a political animal....
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The Doctrines of the Great Educators

Robert Robertson Rusk - 1918 - 294 pages
...implied in the oft-quoted statement of Aristotle : 5 " The state comes into existence originating in the bare needs of life. and continuing in existence for the sake of a good life." The application of the principle of the division of labour results in the separation of the citizens...
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