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Anyway, this returns us to the enigma of Aristotle.
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Who was this strange and elusive man
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whose writings seem to have been enlisted
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both for the support of monarchy and for republics,
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even for a universal monarchy
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and a smaller participatory democratic kind of government?
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Who was this man and how to understand his writings?
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The best place to start is, of course,
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with his views stated in the opening pages of the Politics
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on the naturalness of the city.
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His claim that man is, by nature, the political animal.
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That's his famous claim.