For Aristotle, moral reflection and association-making generate human politicalness.

Evidence

Moral reflection and association making—these are the qualities that generate our politicalness. The two are related by Aristotle himself insofar as linguistically conveyed moral judgments permit humans to order and govern their associations — from the family to the state—according to deliberations about the good. They are also related by their contribution to “self-sufficiency”: as creatures who are mutually dependent, humans who live in a polis can enjoy justice, as well as the capacity to pursue the “good life,” that is, life that engages distinctly human capacities and exceeds concern with mere survival. — Wendy Brown, Undoing the Demos, 173

Categorization

• DEFINE: Establishes the Aristotelian baseline of homo politicus that the chapter opposes to economic man.
• XREF: connects to: Aristotle’s four causes presuppose an artisanal model of production — Fredric Jameson, Marxism and Form, 750; Kantian ethics made morality rational and shorn of embodied form, displacing Aristotelian ethics — Saba Mahmood, Politics of Piety: The Islamic Revival…, 191; Having or possessing, for Aristotle, is a state of suspended being (+1 more)

Broader Connections

• Kantian ethics made morality rational and shorn of embodied form, displacing Aristotelian ethics #contradicts (0.75) — Saba Mahmood, Politics of Piety, 191
• Having or possessing, for Aristotle, is a state of suspended being #expands (0.72)