What gods and beasts have in common
Posted on:: January 14th, 2013
“The man who is incapable of working in common, or who in his self-sufficiency has no need of others, is no part of the community, like a beast, or a god.”
Aristotle, Politics, Book One, Chapter 2, this quotation translated by Bernard Knox in Backing into the Future.
Categories: culture, philosophy dw
How do gods and beasts compare in their representation of nature and the natural world?