Aristotle
Title: Aristotle
Category: /Social Sciences/Philosophy
Details: Words: 1277 | Pages: 5 (approximately 235 words/page)
Aristotle
Category: /Social Sciences/Philosophy
Details: Words: 1277 | Pages: 5 (approximately 235 words/page)
Born in the year of 384 B.C. Aristotle was seen as conventional for his time, for he regarded slavery as a natural course of nature and believed that certain people were born to be slaves due to the fact that their soul lacked the rational part that should rule in a human being; However in certain circumstances it is evident that Aristotle did not believe that all men who were slaves were meant to be
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We can only guess as to what made Aristotle believe that by the human soul one could delineate whether or not a man was meant to be a slave or a freeman. And with his arguments we find that it was just as difficult for him to make that distinction as well. 'Though it is not as easy to see the beauty of the soul as it is to see that of the body.'