“[T]he state,” wrote Aristotle in his Politics, “is by nature clearly prior to the family and to the individual, since the whole is of necessity prior to the part; for example, if the whole body be destroyed, there will be no foot or hand, except in an equivocal sense, as we might speak of a stone hand…”[1]

In Aristotle’s “whole body” metaphor, the state, like the individual person, is a whol לכותרת המלאה..

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