Political Science · Western Political Thought
UGC NET 2023 Political Science
Who has stated that, if life only were the object, slaves and brute animals might form a state?
APlato
BAristotle ✓ Correct
CConfucius
DHannah Arendt
Correct answer: (B) Aristotle — The statement that slaves and brute animals might form a state if mere life were the object is Aristotle's.
Explanation
★The statement that slaves and brute animals might form a state if mere life were the object is Aristotle's.
★Aristotle argues that the state exists not for life alone but for the good life, the life of virtue and self-sufficiency.
★His famous formula is that the state comes into existence for the sake of life and continues for the sake of the good life.
★Slaves and animals share in mere living but not in rational choice and moral virtue, so they cannot form a true polis.
★Plato, Confucius, and the modern thinker named do not fit this specific teleological argument.
★This connects to his definition of man as a political animal whose end is realised only within the self-sufficient state.
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