For as long as human history has been recorded, and certainly well before that as well, we’ve been afflicted by disease; some minor, some fatal, and up until relatively recently – the past few centuries, for the most part – all largely mysterious in regard to their causes. If the diseases that afflict humans are […]
“From these things therefore it is clear that the city-state is a natural growth, and that man is by nature an animal that lives in a polis, and a man that is by nature and not merely by fortune citiless is either low in the scale of humanity or above it […]” – Aristotle, “Politics” […]