Affiliation:
1. Department of Philosophy, and of Religious Studies, Peking University
Abstract
AbstractThis article defends Aristotle’s core argument for the naturalness of the city by offering a reconstruction of the connection and a demonstration of the consistency between this argument and its metaphysical foundation. The author argues that the city is natural in a strictly Aristotelian sense since its moving and final causes are intertwined in man’s evolving desire for good life and its historical satisfaction.
Subject
Literature and Literary Theory,Linguistics and Language,History,Language and Linguistics,Archeology,Classics
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