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"But why can we only exercise our
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capacity for language in political community?"
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you might ask.
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Aristotle gives a second part, a fuller part,
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of his answer in the Nichomachean Ethics;
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an excerpt of which we have among the readings.
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And there he explains that political deliberation,
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living the life of a citizen,
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ruling and being ruled in turn, sharing in rule,
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all of this is necessary to virtue.
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Aristotle defines happiness
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not as maximizing the balance of pleasure over pain