prepolitical
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- adjective
- /ˌpriːpəˈlɪtɪkəl/
- Anthropologists study prepolitical relationships among tribes to understand how social structures evolved before modern political systems.
Examples
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In the so-called Latin or Iberian cultures, individuals tend not to act collectively because of their attachment to prepolitical institutions, such as the family, and their rejection of a logic of collective gains (Reis 1995).
Academic text (2000) -
It was conceived of as an innate, prepolitical liberty, one of the essential conditions of humanity, but not in itself an illustration of the cognitive capabilities of humans.
Academic text (1996) -
Aristotle and the Prepolitical Beginnings of Politics
Academic text (2002) -
Life prior to the invention of civility is, Adams argued, a prepolitical existence, and his descriptions should call to mind Hobbes's state of nature.
Academic text (2009) -
It presupposes that humans are by nature isolated individuals with, as Hobbes says, a prepolitical and therefore brutish beginning.
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As Habermas points out, political appeals to a sense of prepolitical belonging together indicate "that the universality of equal rights for all and of equal respect for everyone is still a bloodless abstraction." 8
Academic text (1991) -
Mill's epistemic frame violated Indian political subjectivity by condemning Indians to a prepolitical barbarian status.
Academic text (2016) -
In Aristotle's Politics, the subpolitical or prepolitical family relations point to the necessity of political rule and are perfected by it, whereas in the state-of-nature teachings, political rule is derived entirely from the need for protection of individuals, bypassing their social relations completely.
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In many cultures, traditions are often rooted in prepolitical beliefs that existed before formal governance was established.
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The philosophers explored concepts of prepolitical society, suggesting that community bonds formed long before organized states emerged.
Antonyms
How Political
Surface Forms
Morphology
prepolitical = political (transparent) = pre + politic + al
The prefix 'pre-' combines in a fully regular way with 'political' to mean 'before politics or political systems are involved.'
Etymology
Prepolitical is made of pre- meaning 'before' and political meaning 'about public life or government'. That's why prepolitical describes something that exists or happens 'before' politics or governments are involved.