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" But is there any one thus intended by nature to be a slave, and for whom such a condition is expedient and right, or rather is not all slavery a violation of nature? There is no difficulty in answering this question, on grounds both of reason and of fact.... "
Introduction and translation - Page 7
by Aristotle, Benjamin Jowett - 1885
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Introduction and translation

Aristotle, Benjamin Jowett - 1885 - 466 pages
...all slavery a violation of nature ? nature? There is no difficulty in answering this question, on 2 grounds both of reason and of fact. For that some...for subjection, others for rule. And whereas there arc many kinds both of rulers and subjects, that rule is the better which is exercised over better...
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Introduction and translation

Aristotle - 1885 - 464 pages
...fact. For that some should rule, and others be ruled is a thing, not only necessary^'-EuTexpeciiej1tL; from the hour of their birth, some are marked out...rule is the better which is exercised over better subjects—for example, to rule over men is better 3 than to rule over wild beasts. The work is better...
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Greece in the Age of Pericles

Arthur James Grant - 1893 - 366 pages
...rather is not all slavery a violation of nature ? There is no difficulty in answering this question on grounds both of reason and of fact. For that some...some are marked out for subjection, others for rule. ... In all things which form a composite whole and which are made up of parts, a distinction between...
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A Select Library of Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers of the Christian Church ...

Philip Schaff, Henry Wace - 1895 - 460 pages
...violation of nature? There is no difficulty in answering Oils question, on grounds both of reason and fact. For that some should rule, and others be ruled,...some are marked out for subjection, others for rule. ... Where, then, there is such a difference as that between soul and body, or between men and nnimals...
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Dialogues of Plato: Containing The Apology of Socrates, Crito, Phaedo, and ...

Plato - 1899 - 514 pages
...rather is not all slavery a violation of nature ? There is no difficulty in answering this question, on grounds both of reason and of fact. For that some...subjects — for example, to rule over men is better than to rule over wild beasts. The work is better which is executed by better workmen ; and where one...
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Dialogues of Plato

Benjamin Jowett - 1899 - 480 pages
...rather is not all slavery a violation of nature ? There is no difficulty in answering this question, on grounds both of reason and of fact. For that some...rule is the better which is exercised over better subjects—for example, to rule over men is better than to rule over wild beasts. The work is better...
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The Process of Government; a Study of Social Pressures

Arthur Fisher Bentley - 1908 - 550 pages
...relations of slaves and freemen ? Slaves, he says, are slaves by nature. Freemen are freemen by nature : "From the hour of their birth, some are marked out for subjection, others for rule."1 "He who participates in reason enough to apprehend, but not to have, reason, is a slave by...
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The Primary Causes of Social Inequality

Gunnar Landtman - 1909 - 170 pages
...itself. nFor that some should rule, and others be ruled", he says in the First Book of his Politics, nis a thing not only necessary, but expedient; from the...some are marked out for subjection, others for rule." 1) The great Rousseau, who will always be thought of as one of the warmest hearted dreamers that have...
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Readings in Political Philosophy

Francis William Coker - 1914 - 608 pages
...rather is not all slavery a violation of nature? There is no difficulty in answering this question, on grounds both of reason and of fact. For that some...subjects — for example, to rule over men is better than to rule over wild beasts. The work is better which is executed by better workmen; and where one...
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The Equality of States in International Law, Volume 3

Edwin De Witt Dickinson - 1920 - 448 pages
...rather is not all slavery a violation of nature ? There is no difficulty in answering this question, on grounds both of reason and of fact. For that some...some are marked out for subjection, others for rule. ... It is clear, then, that some men are by nature free, and others slaves, and that for these latter...
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