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Aristotle Ἀριστοτέλης

384–322 BCE · Classical Greek

Plato's student and the most systematic mind of antiquity.

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ὁ ἄνθρωπος φύσει πολιτικὸν ζῷον

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“The human being is by nature a political animal.”

Aristotle, Politics 1253a

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Confucius

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