Verify Citation - 6. The Distributive Justice of Group Feasts and Banquets

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Aristotle (Politics II.7 at 1267a) recognized that men commit the most serious crimes because “their aims are extravagant, not just to provide themselves with necessities. Who ever heard of a man making himself a dictator in order to keep warm?”

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