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But again, when Aristotle speaks of the kinds of affection that hold a
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citizen body together, he does not mean anything like
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the bonds of personal intimacy that characterize private friendships.
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What he means, when speaking about civic affection,
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is more like the bonds of loyalty,
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camaraderie that hold together members of a team or a club.
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These are more than, again, ties of mutual convenience.
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They require loyalty, trust,
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what social scientists today sometimes call social capital,
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that successful societies require social capital.
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A distinguished political scientist at another university,
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I will not mention its name here, at another university,