For the real difference between humans and other animals is that human…

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For the real difference between humans and other animals is that humans alone have perception of good and evil, just and unjust, etc. It is the sharing of a common view in these matters that makes a household and a state. ✨ Aristotle (1987). A New Aristotle reader
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