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24. Political Theory / A. Basis of a State / 1. A People / a. Human distinctiveness

2558	Since Hegel we have tended to see a human as merely animal if it is outside a society [Rorty]
	Full Idea: Only since Hegel have philosophers begun toying with the idea that the individual apart from his society is just one more animal.
	From: Richard Rorty (Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature [1980], 4.3)