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Ethics and Politics
Hughes, Graham W.
Hughes, Graham W.
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"Man is by nature, said Karl Marx, "if not a political animal at any rate asocial one." It would be more accurate to say that as man is a social being he is inevitably a political one. In the interests of accuracy too, we may take exception to the term, repeated to the point of tedium in these days, which describes man as a "social animal." In the first place it is a redundancy, since all the animals are social and, in the second, if man is no more than an animal politics may be applicable to him but ethics can never be; the beast of the field has yet to 'be found which takes an interest in moral laws."
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1944
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