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Aristotle's views on slavery are well known and are considered by many to be a justification of the practices of the day. His emphasis in The Politics is the role of government and slavery was a vital and integral component of the social, political and economic world of the Greeks. This 5 page paper examines Aristotle's views on slavery. No additional sources cited.
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social, political and economic world of the Greeks. Succinctly stated, Aristotle viewed slaves as being wrought by nature for the purposes of slavery or subjugation. Being a slave was
viewed as beneficial for the survival of the slave. Such an assertion is based on the belief that the slave was mentally incapable of surviving on their own.
The master, slave relationship was a symbiosis founded on the Greek need for labor and the slaves need for direction and authority. The intellectual abilities credited the slave by
Aristotle was of the same level as livestock or other domesticated animals. Aristotle argued that slavery was a component of the natural order of the Universe and as
such was not subject to moral interpretation. He draws the conclusion that man is free only to the extent that he is cognizant of the world in respect to
the mind, body and spirit of the a priori reality inherent in thinking man. The teleology of Aristotle allotted the slave the place of natural servitude. He implies
that slaves are made by nature and not born to the intellectual freedom accredited to man. To allow the slave the normal cultural considerations would distort the natural order
and subvert purpose in ways deemed dysfunctional. The nature of the slave is slavish and subservience the natural consequence. Aristotle does allow that if a slave should overcome
his nature and achieve a cognizance on a level with Greek intelligence, emancipation and inclusion should naturally follow. In the Politics Aristotle was concerned more with the nature of government
than the issues of gender roles. Nonetheless, he gives a model of the inter workings of male and female relationships in terms of duties and abilities and parallels the
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