The promp is: You may have heard the famous phrase derived from Aristotle “man is a
poltical animal.” What, specifically, does Aristotle mean by this? There is also an in text citation that has to be worked in which is titled Aristotle Politics and you can choose any that works in this paragraph “It is evident from these considerations, then, that a city-state is
among the things that exist by nature, that a human being is by nature a
political animal, 15 and that anyone who is without a city-state, not by
luck but by nature, is either a poor specimen or else superhuman. Like
the one Homer condemns, he too is “clanless, lawless, and homeless.”S For someone with such a nature is at the same time eager for war, like anisolated piece in a board game. 17
It is also clear why a human being is more of a political animal than a
bee or any other gregarious animal. Nature makes nothing pointlessly, 1 8 as we say, and no animal has speech except a human being. A voice is a
signifier of what is pleasant or painful, which is why it is also possessed
by the other animals (for their nature goes this far: they not only per
ceive what is pleasant or painful but signify it to each other). But speech
is for making clear what is beneficial or harmful, and hence also what isIS just or unjust. For it is peculiar to human beings, in comparison to the
other animals, that they alone have perception of what is good or bad,
just or unjust, and the rest. And it is community in these that makes a
household and a city-state.”
