"One who is unable to live in a community, or does not need to because he is self-sufficient, is no part of the polis [city], and is therefore either a beast or a god." -Aristotle [unattributed]Aristotle ( 384–March 7 322 BCE) was an ancient Greek philosopher, who studied with Plato and taught Alexander the Great. He wrote books on many subjects, including physics, poetry, zoology, logic, rhetoric, government, and biology. Aristotle, along with Plato and Socrates, is generally considered one of the most influential of ancient Greek philosophers. They transformed Presocratic Greek philosophy into the foundations of Western philosophy as we know it. (From Wikipedia)
