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It is the capacity to know and to recognize others
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who share this language with us that is
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the first sense in which logos entails politics.
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But reason or logos entails more than this capacity.
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It also entails for Aristotle, interestingly, the power of love.
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We love those with whom we are most intimately related
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and who are most immediately present and visible to us.
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In many ways, Aristotle believes our
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social and political nature is not the result of calculation,
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as we will see in Hobbes, Locke,
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and other social contract theorists,
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but such things as love, affection, friendship, and sympathy