Sociability is as much a law of nature as mutual struggle... Mutual aid is as much a law of animal life as mutual struggle.

Peter Kropotkin

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Man as social animal

Author

Peter Kropotkin

Source

Mutual Aid

Language

English

Time

1902 1900s 20th century

Occupation

Socialist Revolutionary

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Russia Europe

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Citation

Kropotkin, Peter. Mutual Aid: A Factor of Evolution. McClure Phillips & Co./William Heinemann, 1902, ch. 1. Originally published in The Nineteenth Century, c. 1890.

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Rainer Maria Rilke
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Man is a social animal.

Baruch Spinoza

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Man as social animal Nature of man

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Baruch Spinoza
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Ethics
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Treatise
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Language
Latin
Time
1677 1670s 17th century
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Original Citation

Spinoza, Baruch. Ethica, Ordine Geometrico Desmonstrata [Ethics, Demonstrated in Geometrical Order]. 1677, pt. 4, prop. 35, note.

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