Source identified
Read & copy the quotation
“Man is naturally a political animal.”
- Date
- 4th century BCE
- English wording
- William Ellis — Translator · from Ancient Greek
Meaning of “Man is naturally a political animal.”
Human beings naturally form communities in which speech, judgment, cooperation, law, and shared ideas of justice shape common life.
Where does it come from?
Politics: A Treatise on Government, Book I, Chapter II, William Ellis translation; represented through the Dent edition first issued in 1912 and Project Gutenberg #6762. Aristotle argues that the city is a natural association and says that man is naturally a political animal; this remains ancient political philosophy in translation, not a modern empirical classification.
