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Volume 15, Issue 1-2
  • ISSN: 1757-1952
  • E-ISSN: 1757-1960

Abstract

The aim of this article is to explore Aristotle’s view on the relationship between human language and human ultra-sociality. I claim that although Aristotle considers the sociality of several animal species to be natural , he regards human sociality as greater in degree () because it is achieved and sustained only through cooperation mediated by language. Attaining this heightened form of sociality requires a communicative tool that goes beyond the mere pursuit of pleasure and avoidance of pain. It demands a conventional medium that enables us to detach from our immediate perceptions and imaginings (, ) and to enter the domain of constructing social relations grounded in justice. I argue that we accomplish this through the normativity inherent in human language.

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  • The Philosophical Faculty of the University of Hradec Králové
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