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Politics I.2.14

“the state is by nature clearly prior to the family and to the individual”

AND ANOTHER THING. As interesting as the slavery discussion is, I'd like to think more about the claim that the city is “prior to” the individual. In what sense? Anthropologically, isn't the family clearly prior — cities being a relatively …

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