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of the thesis is only left deeply embedded.
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He doesn't fully develop it in this work or in saying.
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He isn't saying that man is political by nature.
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Note that he is not saying, although he is sometimes
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taken to be saying this, that he is not saying that there is
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some kind of biologically implanted desire or impulse
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that we have or share that leads us to engage in political life.
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That is to say we do not, he wants to say, engage in politics.
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To say it's natural for us to do so is not to say we engage in
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political life spontaneously and avidly,
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as you might say spiders spin webs or ants build anthills.
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He is not a kind of socio-biologist of politics,