POLS 2490 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Social Animal
25 Sep 2017
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The polus reps the pinnacle which meant a social animal. A human without a polus is either a beast or a god. Missing on what"s necessary to exist as a human. Humans need political activity and associations, unlike beasts and gods. Slavery was part of the human condition for thousands of years. If u lost a war yr sold into slavery plato"s an empiricist. Slaves don"t have the capacity to reason, thus can"t reason and one without reason is lost 4ever. So the slave finds reason in the master. Is art of the acquisition part of the household. The use value characterizes the natural art of acquisition. Exchange value characterizes the unnatural art of acquisition. Some exchange is appropriate for the household and for the polus as a whole. The stage of commerce is unnatural as it is for profit.
