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Ciceronian Questions for My LLM

"Well yes, that is a very perceptive question, isn't it?"

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Samuel Kimbriel
Jul 08, 2025
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One of Aristotle’s earliest claims about politics is that to understand human beings you have to realize that we are more social even than bees. This isn’t uncontroversial. Philosophers like Hobbes argued the opposite — our base nature is individual, striving, violent.

But I’ve been thinking this summer about how Aristotle’s claim relates to the way that…

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