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[filed under theme 24. Political Theory / A. Basis of a State / 1. A People / c. A unified people
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Full Idea
Socrates adopts the hypothesis that it is best for a city to be as far as possible entirely one. …But it is evident that the more a city becomes one the less of a city it will be. For a city is in its nature a sort of multitude.
Gist of Idea
A city can't become entirely one, because its very nature is to be a multitude
Source
Aristotle (Politics [c.332 BCE], 1261a14)
Book Ref
Aristotle: 'Politics', ed/tr. Reeve,C.D.C. [Hackett 2017], p.22
A Reaction
[He is referring to Plato's Republic] He says if a city wholly unifies it becomes like a household, and then a human being, rather than a city. A very interesting commitment to diversity in a city, based on its essential nature. Athens was very diverse.
The
37 ideas
with the same theme
[how many individuals count as a single people]:
22523
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The community (of villages) becomes a city when it is totally self-sufficient
[Aristotle]
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2805
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A community must share a common view of good and justice
[Aristotle]
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22526
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People who are anti-social or wholly self-sufficient are no part of a city
[Aristotle]
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22532
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A city can't become entirely one, because its very nature is to be a multitude
[Aristotle]
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22535
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Friendship is the best good for cities, because it reduces factions
[Aristotle]
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22584
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A community should all share to some extent in something like land or food
[Aristotle]
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23351
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We are citizens of the universe, and principal parts of it
[Epictetus]
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21874
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The ideal for human preservation is unanimity among people
[Spinoza]
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19935
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Peoples are created by individuals, not by nature, and only distinguished by language and law
[Spinoza]
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19963
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People are drawn into society by needs, shared fears, pleasure, and knowledge
[Montesquieu]
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20008
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People are guided by a multitude of influences, from which the spirit of a nation emerges
[Montesquieu]
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20501
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Rousseau assumes that laws need a people united by custom and tradition
[Rousseau, by Wolff,J]
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7237
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The act of becoming 'a people' is the real foundation of society
[Rousseau]
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19792
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To overcome obstacles, people must unite their forces into a single unified power
[Rousseau]
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19812
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Human nature changes among a people, into a moral and partial existence
[Rousseau]
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23276
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The soul of the people is an organisation of its members which produces an essential unity
[Hegel]
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22787
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The family is the first basis of the state, but estates are a necessary second
[Hegel]
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20414
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Hegel's Absolute Spirit is the union of human rational activity at a moment, and whatever that sustains
[Hegel, by Eldridge]
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22676
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The people are just individuals, and only present themselves as united to foreigners
[Tocqueville]
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23721
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Old tribes always felt an obligation to the earlier generations, and the founders
[Nietzsche]
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18296
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An enduring people needs its own individual values
[Nietzsche]
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23153
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Gradually loyalty to a creed increased, which could even outweigh nationality
[Russell]
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23152
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Increasingly war expands communities, and unifies them through fear
[Russell]
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23155
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In early societies the leaders needed cohesion, but the rest just had to obey
[Russell]
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23838
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The need for order stands above all others, and is understood via the other needs
[Weil]
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20662
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The biology of societies: kin selection, parenting, mating; status, territory, contracts
[Wilson,EO]
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21936
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A community must consist of singular persons, with nothing in common
[Derrida, by Glendinning]
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21937
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Can there be democratic friendship without us all becoming identical?
[Derrida, by Glendinning]
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21137
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Rawls rejected cosmopolitanism because it doesn't respect the autonomy of 'peoples'
[Rawls, by Shorten]
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20155
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Society is alienating if it lacks our values, and its values repel us
[Kekes]
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20483
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Collective rationality is individuals doing their best, assuming others all do the same
[Wolff,J]
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20532
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Should love be the first virtue of a society, as it is of the family?
[Wolff,J]
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20582
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World government needs a shared global identity
[Oksala]
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20564
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Anti-colonial movements usually invoke the right of their 'people' to self-determination
[Swift]
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20663
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If a group is bound by gossip, the natural size is 150 people
[Harari]
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20598
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In a democracy, which 'people' are included in the decision process?
[Tuckness/Wolf]
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20614
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People often have greater attachment to ethnic or tribal groups than to the state
[Tuckness/Wolf]
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