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070 - What is Politics?

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The Discipline of Politics

Aristotle observes that man is a political animal. So at the same time, as Brian adds, you know, social animal, but political animal. It's just that some of our ends are only ever realized in corporate disciplines or in corporate enterprises. We are meant for life in the city because he says the man who lives apart is either a beast or a god, right? But to be a man is to really be engaged in praxis. To exercise one's practical reason and to comport oneself in an active life so that he can,. you know, be perfected in matters of agricultural or animal husbandryor other like artisanal arts.

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