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The same conclusion also appears to follow from a consideration of the self-sufficiency
of happiness—for it is felt that the final good must be a thing sufficient in
itself. The term self-sufficient, however, we employ with reference not to oneself alone,
living a life of isolation, but also to one's parents and children and wife, and one's
friends and fellow citizens in general, since man is by nature a social being.1
1 Lit. ‘a political thing.’ Aristot. Pol. 1253a 2 adds ζῷον, ‘a political animal.’
Aristotle in 23 Volumes, Vol. 19, translated by H. Rackham. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1934.
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