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Question
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‘Man without society is either a beast or a God’. Who said this?
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Plato
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Gandhi
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Aristotle
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Henry Maine
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Explanation:
Detailed explanation-1: -Aristotle, the great Greek philosopher said that ‘man without society is either a beast or a God’. According to him man can not live without a society and he is thus solely dependent on society.
Detailed explanation-2: -Here, Aristotle is saying that the individual is not self-sufficing and is like a part in relation to a whole – where the whole is the state, or the community. He also compares those who are self-sufficing and do not live within a community as beasts or gods – i.e. not really human.
Detailed explanation-3: -Here, by God he means perfect or complete or self-sufficient and by beast he means a person who is not conscious of his incompleteness, even though he is incomplete.
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