Editing Social responsibility (section)

===Aristotle===
[[Aristotle]] determined that "Man is by nature a political animal."<ref name=Politics>{{cite book|author=[[Aristotle]]|title=[[Politics (Aristotle)|Politics]]}}</ref>{{rp|at=I.2}}

He saw ethics and politics as mutually-reinforcing: a citizen develops the virtues in large part so that they can contribute to making the {{transliteration|grc|[[polis]]}} an excellent and stable one. And the purpose of that was so that the {{transliteration|grc|polis}} would be fertile soil in which a thriving, virtuous citizenry could grow (and in order that there could be an appropriate political context in which one could successfully practice virtues like justice which require a political context).{{r|Politics|at=I.1–2, III.4, VII.1–3}}<ref name=NE>{{cite book|author=[[Aristotle]]|title=[[Nicomachean Ethics]]}}</ref>{{rp|at=II.1, V.6, X.9}}

He believed that the {{transliteration|grc|polis}} is meant to be "a community of equals for the sake of a life which is potentially the best."{{r|Politics|at=VII.8}} Some of the virtues in his scheme of [[virtue ethics]], like [[Magnificence (history of ideas)|magnificence]] and [[justice]] were inseparable from a sense of social responsibility.{{r|NE|at=IV.2, V}}