POLI 1001 Chapter : Aristotle Politics
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First principles of politics: politics can harmonize what is theoretically at odds really similar to our world today about the way aristotle talks about politics. He says the barbarians think women are slaves because they themselves need to be ruled nn. Freedom is an achievement because it requires rationality and virtue, property their own computer, etc. jj. Then he says, there seems to be some people that need to take orders from other people; they naturally have to have a boss gg. The issue of abolition of slavery is the issue of whether or not everyone is capable, by nature, of ruling himself hh. Aristotle gets a mixed answer with this: on one hand, he says a slave would be as different from a master as a bb. What"s owned in common seems not to be as well cared for as private cc. People aren"t as careful with the school computer as they are with dd.
