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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
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shared standards, but also, as he says,
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sites of moral contestation over justice and injustice.
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Politics is about conflict and conflicts over justice.