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The title of Politics literally means "the things concerning the πόλις ", and is the origin of the modern English word politics. As Aristotle explains, this is understood by him to be a study of how people should best live together in communities – the polis being seen by him as the best and most natural community for humans.
He famously stated that "man is by nature a political animal" and argued that humanity's defining factor among others in the animal kingdom is its rationality. [143] Aristotle conceived of politics as being like an organism rather than like a machine, and as a collection of parts none of which can exist without the others.
"Here is Plato's man." In response, Plato added to his definition: πλατυώνυχον platuṓnukhon "Having broad nails" [14] As quoted by Diogenes Laërtius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers [15] ζῷον πολιτικόν zôion politikón "Man is by nature a political animal", i.e. animal of the polis or social being
Man is a political animal: An animal with an innate propensity to develop more complex communities (i.e. the size of a city or town), with systems of law-making and a division of labor. This type of community is different in kind from a large family, and requires the use of human reason. Cities should not be run by a patriarch, like a village. [17]
For Baldus, not only was man, in Aristotelian terms, a "political animal", but the whole populus, the body of the people, formed a type of political animal in itself: a populus "has government as part of [its] existence, just as every animal is ruled by its own spirit and soul". [21]
The Part Played by Labour in the Transition from Ape to Man" (German: "Anteil der Arbeit an der Menschwerdung des Affen") is an unfinished essay written by Friedrich Engels in the spring of 1876. The essay forms the ninth chapter of Dialectics of Nature , which proposes a unitary materialist paradigm of natural and human history.
When Donald Tusk first won power in Poland in 2007, the country’s media coined a tender moniker to describe his approach towards his political rivals: the “politics of love.”
Political Animal or Political Animals may refer to: A term used by the ancient Greek philosopher Aristotle in his Politics to refer to a human being; Political Animals (TV miniseries), a United States drama; Political Animal, a British comedy show; Political Animals (rugby), a sports team of politicians