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24. Political Theory / B. Nature of a State / 1. Purpose of a State

14838	The state aims to protect individuals from one another [Nietzsche]
	Full Idea: The state is a clever institution for protecting individuals from one another.
	From: Friedrich Nietzsche (Human, All Too Human [1878], 235)
	A reaction: This is Nietzsche allying with Hobbes, and presumably aiming this remark at Hegel.

24. Political Theory / B. Nature of a State / 5. Culture

14852	Culture cannot do without passions and vices [Nietzsche]
	Full Idea: Culture absolutely cannot do without passions, vices and acts of malice.
	From: Friedrich Nietzsche (Human, All Too Human [1878], 477)
	A reaction: I'm not sure how you test the truth of that aphorism, given that humanity is perpetually doomed to live with such things. If those qualities disappeared, I suppose we would drift apart. We are 'dependent' beings, as MacIntyre says.