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allows us to participate in a community or a way of life governed
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by shared standards of justice and injustice.
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Aristotle's political science presupposes, in other words,
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a certain conception of human beings as linguistic animals who are
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capable not only of living together so do a range of other species
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but rather sharing in the arrangements of rule.
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It is our logos, our reason that makes a community
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possible and also expresses or creates,
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you could say, a certain latitude or indeterminacy
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in how our behavior distinguishes us from other species.
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It is precisely, he believes, this latitude that
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makes political communities not only sites of agreement over