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controlling conflict and struggle, but he also understood the
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importance of property and private property and commerce for
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a flourishing republic.
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We didn't really pause to talk much about this, but in Book
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II, you remember, he criticizes at considerable length
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Plato's for the excessive unity it demands
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of its citizens.
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Socrates demands for common ownership of property,
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at least among the auxiliary class.
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But Aristotle claims that the city is not naturally one.
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That is to say, a certain diversity is necessary to
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make up a city.