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Single Idea 2431
[filed under theme 24. Political Theory / B. Nature of a State / 1. Purpose of a State
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Full Idea
Observation tells us that every state is an association; and that every state is formed with a view to some good purpose.
Gist of Idea
Every state is an association formed for some good purpose
Source
Aristotle (Politics [c.332 BCE], 1252a01)
Book Ref
Aristotle: 'Politics', ed/tr. Sinclair,T.A. /Saunders,T. [Penguin 1992], p.54
A Reaction
Not so much a historical speculation, I think, as an assertion that it should be obvious what binds a state together, and hence has allowed it to endure.
The
39 ideas
with the same theme
[reasons why a people forms itself into a state]:
7346
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Jeremiah implied a link between weakness and goodness, and the evil of the state
[Jeremiah, by Johnson,P]
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137
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As with other things, a good state is organised and orderly
[Plato]
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19890
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All exchanges in a community are for mutual benefit
[Plato]
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5140
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Political science aims at the highest good, which involves creating virtue in citizens
[Aristotle]
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86
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A bad political constitution (especially a tyranny) makes friendship almost impossible
[Aristotle]
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23915
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The main function of politics is to produce friendship
[Aristotle]
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2431
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Every state is an association formed for some good purpose
[Aristotle]
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22548
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A city aims at living well
[Aristotle]
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22577
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What is the best life for everyone, and is that a communal or an individual problem?
[Aristotle]
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22578
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The happiest city is the one that acts most nobly
[Aristotle]
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22579
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The same four cardinal virtues which apply to individuals also apply to a city
[Aristotle]
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7487
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Society exists to extend human awareness
[Spinoza, by Watson]
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19943
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The state aims to allow personal development, so its main purpose is freedom
[Spinoza]
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19863
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Politics is the right to make enforceable laws to protect property and the state, for the common good
[Locke]
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19995
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All states aim at preservation, and then have distinctive individual purposes
[Montesquieu]
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3921
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The safety of the people is the supreme law
[Hume]
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21096
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The only purpose of government is to administer justice, which brings security
[Hume]
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19816
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A state's purpose is liberty and equality - liberty for strength, and equality for liberty
[Rousseau]
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7247
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The greatest social good comes down to freedom and equality
[Rousseau]
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19838
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The measure of a successful state is increase in its population
[Rousseau]
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19855
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The purpose of society is to protect the rights of liberty, property, security and resistance
[Mirabeau/committee]
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7542
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The best form of government teaches us to govern ourselves
[Goethe]
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22767
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I aim to portray the state as a rational entity
[Hegel]
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22789
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Society draws people, and requires their work, making them wholly dependent on it
[Hegel]
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22791
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The state is the march of God in the world
[Hegel]
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21485
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The state only exists to defend citizens, from exterior threats, and from one another
[Schopenhauer]
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23203
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The great question is approaching, of how to govern the earth as a whole
[Nietzsche]
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14838
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The state aims to protect individuals from one another
[Nietzsche]
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20367
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Individual development is more important than the state, but a community is necessary
[Nietzsche]
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23157
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Government has a negative purpose, to prevent trouble, and a positive aim of realising our desires
[Russell]
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20937
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The state should produce higher civilisations for all, in tune with the economic apparatus
[Gramsci]
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20491
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States have a monopoly of legitimate violence
[Sartre, by Wolff,J]
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15043
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Every society has a politics of truth, concerning its values, functions, prestige and mechanisms
[Foucault]
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18643
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A minimal state should protect, but a state forcing us to do more is unjustified
[Nozick]
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23114
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The chief function of the state is to arbitrate between contending visions of the good life
[Kekes]
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20163
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Ideologies have beliefs about reality, ideals, a gap with actuality, and a program
[Kekes]
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20164
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The ideal of an ideology is embodied in a text, a role model, a law of history, a dream of the past...
[Kekes]
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9311
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We have achieved a sort of utopia, and it is boring, so that is the end of utopias
[Svendsen]
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20674
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The Nazi aim was to encourage progressive evolution, and avoid degeneration
[Harari]
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