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Why does one lead to or entail the other?
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In many ways, he's not making a causal claim so much.
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He's not saying that it is because we are rational creatures
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possessed of the power of speech that causes us to engage in politics.
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He has more of an argument of the kind that
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this attribute of logos actually entails political life.
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He makes his argument, I think,
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because logos entails two fundamentally human attributes.
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First, the power to know, you could say.
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The power to know is our ability to recognize, by sight,
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members of the same polis or city.
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It is, above all, speech that in a way, ties us to others of our kind.