Thus society is born, as something required by nature, and (because this nature is human nature) as something accomplished through a work of reason a… - Jacques Maritain

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Thus society is born, as something required by nature, and (because this nature is human nature) as something accomplished through a work of reason and will, and freely consented to. Man is a political animal, which means that the human person craves political life, communal life, not only with regard to the family community, but with regard to the civil community.