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Single Idea 2828

[from 'Politics' by Aristotle, in 25. Social Practice / C. Rights / 1. Basis of Rights ]

Full Idea

Law is intelligence without appetite.

Gist of Idea

Law is intelligence without appetite

Source

Aristotle (Politics [c.332 BCE], 1287a31)

Book Reference

Aristotle: 'Politics', ed/tr. Sinclair,T.A. /Saunders,T. [Penguin 1992], p.226


A Reaction

Neat, but no laws would be needed if there were no appetites. The idea has a nice Kantian feeling to it, though - of rising into the space of pure reason.