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Political Animals and Animal Politics is a 2014 edited collection published by Palgrave Macmillan and edited by the green political theorists Marcel Wissenburg and David Schlosberg. The work addresses the emergence of academic animal ethics informed by political philosophy as opposed to moral philosophy.
Summary. The claim that human beings are by nature political animals is one of the most fundamental of Aristotle’s Politics, and, understandably, it has received a lot of attention. 1 One very interesting, and fruitful, trend has appealed to the biological works to illuminate this famous thesis. 2 This strategy has brought to light a broad ...
- Joseph Karbowski, Geert Keil, Nora Kreft
- 2019
A political animal is one who is fascinated by politics and who thrives on being closely involved in politics. They are also sometimes called political junkies. Origin of “Political Animal” The term was first used by Aristotle. Writing in the mid 4th century, BC, the Greek philosopher declared:
Aristotle. What does Aristotle's statement "man is a political animal" mean? Quick answer: Aristotle's statement "man is a political animal" reflects his belief that human beings...
“Man is a political animal,” Aristotle observes; human beings are creatures of flesh and blood, rubbing shoulders with each other in cities and communities. Like his work in zoology, Aristotle’s political studies combine observation and theory.
Second, human beings are by nature political animals, because nature, which does nothing in vain, has equipped them with speech, which enables them to communicate moral concepts such as justice which are formative of the household and city-state (1253a1–18).
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Although nature brings us together – we are by nature political animals – nature alone does not give us all of what we need to live together: “[T]here is in everyone by nature an impulse toward this sort of partnership. And yet the one who first constituted [a city] is responsible for the greatest of goods” [1253a29].
